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shingling Meaning & Definition

What Does Shingling Mean?

Shingling is used as a verb meaning present participle and gerund of shingle. As a noun, it means The act of covering with shingles.

The act of covering with shingles.
Shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.
The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron.
The increasing of the storage density of a hard disk by writing tracks that partially overlap.

To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.

To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
To beat with a shingle.

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shingling

shingling (countable and uncountable, plural shinglings)