stringing

English

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  • Rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ

Verb

stringing

  1. present participle and gerund of string

Noun

stringing (countable and uncountable, plural stringings)

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

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