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stringings

stringings is the plural of stringing.

Meaning of stringing

Noun

stringing (countable and uncountable, plural stringings)

  1. The act by which something is strung.
    • One of the family's diversions was singing "quodlibets." These "what-you-wills" were simply stringings together of various melodies […]1948, Alfred Louis Bacharach, The music masters: including Lives of the great composers, page 47
  2. (uncountable) A defect in 3D printing where strings or whiskers of material are left on the finished product.
    • When a printer is extruding and has open spaces in a layer, printers pull the filament back so that stringing does not occur.2015, Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron, 3D Printing with MatterControl, page 153
    Synonyms:
    oozing

Questions about stringings

What is stringings the plural of?
Stringings is the plural of stringing.

Words near stringings in the dictionary

  1. stringing on
  2. stringing out
  3. stringing together
  4. stringing up
  5. stringing with
  6. stringings
  7. stringization
  8. stringize
  9. stringized
  10. stringizes
  11. stringizing

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