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thermalling

thermalling is the present participle and gerund of thermal.

Meaning of thermal

Verb

thermal (third-person singular simple present thermals, present participle (US) thermaling or (UK) thermalling, simple past and past participle (US) thermaled or (UK) thermalled)

  1. To create a rough finish on stone by treating it with a high-temperature blowtorch.
  2. (gliding, often in the present participle) To fly an unpowered aircraft in a thermal (column of rising air).

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Questions about thermalling

What is thermalling the present participle and gerund of?
Thermalling is the present participle and gerund of thermal.

Words near thermalling in the dictionary

  1. thermalize
  2. thermalized
  3. thermalizes
  4. thermalizing
  5. thermalled
  6. thermalling
  7. thermally
  8. thermalon
  9. thermalons
  10. thermals
  11. thermanaesthesia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thermalling (page history and authors); thermal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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