seating

Noun

seating (countable and uncountable, plural seatings)

1. (gerund) The act of one that seats.
   • The seating of passengers will begin soon.
2. (uncountable) The provision of chairs or other places for people to sit.
   • There is plenty of comfortable seating.
   • Above the concourse, the underneath of the platforms has been clad with attractive wood panelling, while the columns holding them up are surrounded with seating - for use by passengers biding their time waiting for their trains, or who have used one of the 70-or-so eateries or shops that form part...2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31
3. (countable) A period of time in which people are allowed into a performance, a meal, etc., to be seated.
   • The first seating begins at 5 o'clock.
   • an exclusive restaurant offering just ten spaces per seating
4. Material for making seats.
   • cane seating
5. (obsolete) Haircloth.
6. Collectively, the various fitted supports of the parts of a structure or of a machine; a housing in which a component is seated.
7. That part of the floor which rests on the keel.