Cladding

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ædɪŋ

Origin

From clad + -ing. Compare clothing, ultimately from the same source.

Full definition of cladding

Noun

1. (rare) Clothing; clothes.
2. Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fiber.
3. (construction) a weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building (called siding in the US).

Verb

1. Present participle of clad