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shuttering

shuttering noun: the act of closing something with shutters. Also the present participle and gerund of shutter.

Noun

shuttering (countable and uncountable, plural shutterings)

  1. The act of closing something with shutters.
    Synonyms:
    shutdown
  2. (figuratively) The winding down of a business, a publication, etc.
    • In the long run, Marvel's B&W newsstand efforts outlasted the closing and shutterings of both Skywald and Warren's doors but the longest lived of their horror titles only lasted two years, from 1973–1975.2013, Richard J. Arndt, Horror Comics in Black and White: A History and Catalog, 1964-2004
  3. Formwork.
    • s (plural)
    • [I]n practice, small deformations will occur in the shell on striking the shuttering, or... alternatively, some small deformations are due to slightly imperfect placing of the original formwork.1977, Jaques Heyman, Equilibrium of Shell Structures, Clarendon Press, Oxford, page 107
    Synonyms:
    shutter

Also used as

shuttering is also the present participle and gerund of shutter.

Synonyms of shuttering

Forms of shuttering

pluralshutterings

Words formed from shuttering

Phrases with shuttering

Questions about shuttering

What does shuttering mean?
Shuttering means the act of closing something with shutters.
What part of speech is shuttering?
Shuttering is a noun.
What is the plural of shuttering?
The plural of shuttering is shutterings.

Words near shuttering in the dictionary

  1. shutterbug
  2. shutterbugs
  3. shuttered
  4. shutterer
  5. shutterers
  6. shuttering
  7. shuttering carpenter
  8. shuttering carpenters
  9. shutterings
  10. shutterless
  11. shutterlike

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