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weatherings

weatherings is the plural of weathering.

Meaning of weathering

Noun

weathering (countable and uncountable, plural weatherings)

  1. (obsolete) Weather, especially favourable or fair weather.
  2. Mechanical or chemical breaking down of rocks in situ by weather or other causes.
    • At that point the cuesta is 10 miles wide but the hilltops have an eastward descent of only about 62 feet. In its general eastward slope the surface of the cuesta is exactly that of one made by weathering and stream erosion, acting upon a gently-dipping limestone bed in a region never glaciated.1965, Lawrence Martin, The Physical Geography of Wisconsin, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 217
  3. A slight inclination given to an approximately horizontal surface to enable it to throw off water.
  4. The action of weather on objects exposed to it.

Questions about weatherings

What is weatherings the plural of?
Weatherings is the plural of weathering.

Words near weatherings in the dictionary

  1. weathering out
  2. weathering pan
  3. weathering steel
  4. weathering steels
  5. weathering the storm
  6. weatherings
  7. Weatherington
  8. Weatheringtons
  9. weatherise
  10. weatherised
  11. weatherises

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