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caulking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caulk \Caulk\, n.
See Calk.
a viscous semisolid material of varying composition used to fill in seams of objects which are exposed to water, such as wooden ships or bath tiles; -- called also calk and caulking. After applying in a semisolid form, the material hardens and dries to form a waterproof seal. It is used in the process of caulking. It is sometimes applied together with a rope-like cord to fill larger seams.
caulking \caulk"ing\ n.
the process of sealing cracks and crevices with a filler such as caulk[2].
same as caulk[2], n..
Wiktionary
n. A sealing material used to seal joints between heterogeneous materials in many kinds of construction and manufacture. vb. (present participle of caulk English)
Wikipedia
Caulking is both the processes and material (also called sealant) to seal joints or seams in various structures and some types of piping. The oldest form of caulking is used to make the seams in wooden boats or ships watertight, by driving fibrous materials into the wedge-shaped seams between boards. A related process was formerly employed to join sections of cast iron sewerage pipe.
Caulking is also the term to describe the process used to make riveted iron or steel ships and boilers watertight or steamtight.
The same term also refers to the application of flexible sealing compounds to close up gaps in buildings and other structures against water, air, dust, insects, or as a component in firestopping. In the tunnelling industry, caulking refers to the sealing of joints in segmental precast concrete tunnels, commonly by using concrete.
Caulking is a process used in video game level creation or editing (or mapping) for the generation of a level, or map, that when compiled is less demanding for the computer's graphics card to render in-game than it would be otherwise. A surface that is marked with caulk is not drawn in-game, and is commonly shown as bright pink within the map editor.
Inevitably, certain sides of some objects (e.g. walls) in a game scene will never be visible to the player during normal play. The person making the map can apply the caulk texture, instead of a normal texture, to these surfaces when building the map. The surfaces become invisible in-game and if compiled into a Binary Space Partitioning-File (or BSP-Level) they will also not be added to the list of Leaves (or convex polygons). The resulting reduction of polygons and textures used in the video game level reduces the required video card resources, possibly making the map smoother to play. In the case that a surface which was not meant to be visible inadvertently becomes visible, possibly due to a mapping error, some game engines support drawing caulked surfaces using flat shading.
The conscientious mapper will caulk every side of every building block (or brush) in a map that will never be seen by the player. This is easily done by caulking all sides of a new brush by default, and then by only applying normal textures to those sides that will be seen in the game.
Usage examples of "caulking".
The last of the caulking was carried out the next day so that the entire island seemed to reek of pine tar and wet wool.
Pneumatic hammers were used successfully on the lead caulking, but were only used to a small extent on the rust borings, which were mostly hand caulked.
The average labor cost chargeable against the caulking was 12 cents per lin.
The contraction of the concrete, firmly bedded around the flanges of the iron, and showing cracks at fairly uniform intervals, probably localized the small corresponding movements of the iron near the concrete cracks, and resulted in a loosening of the caulking at these points.
The bottoms of the holes were directly on the caulking groove and the pounding of the drill usually drove the caulking back, so that the leak became dry or nearly so after the holes were drilled.
Each was tamped in with a round caulking tool of the size of the hole driven with a sledge hammer.
The pressure of the ice was so great against the wooden hull that the caulking between the planks was squeezed out.
He studied a gardener on a riding mower, a in a white coat running with towels to the tennis court, a repairman caulking the edge of a window.
And yet, at the moment of writing this, Charmian is in her stateroom at the typewriter, Martin is cooking dinner, Tochigi is setting the table, Roscoe and Bert are caulking the deck, and the Snark is steering herself some five knots an hour in a rattling good sea--and the Snark is not padded, either.
The caulking of the seams remained thoroughly sound, and no drop of water had found its way into the hold.