Crossword clues for cladding
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context rare English) clothing; clothes. 2 Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fiber. 3 (context construction English) a weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building (called siding in the US). vb. (present participle of clad English)
WordNet
See clad
adj. wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination; "clothed and in his right mind"- Bible; "proud of her well-clothed family"; "nurses clad in white"; "white-clad nurses" [syn: clothed] [ant: unclothed]
having an outer covering especially of thin metal; "steel-clad"; "armor-clad"
[also: cladding]
n. a protective covering that protects the outside of a building [syn: facing]
Wikipedia
Cladding of one with another. It may refer to the following:
- Cladding (metalworking)
- Cladding (fiber optics)
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Cladding (construction)
- Copper cladding
- Rainscreen cladding
- Cladding (nuclear fuel)
- Cladding (boiler)
- Siding
Cladding is the bonding together of dissimilar metals. It is different from fusion welding or gluing as a method to fasten the metals together. Cladding is often achieved by extruding two metals through a die as well as pressing or rolling sheets together under high pressure.
The United States Mint uses cladding to manufacture coins from different metals. This allows a cheaper metal to be used as a filler.
Cladding is one or more layers of materials of lower refractive index, in intimate contact with a core material of higher refractive index. The cladding causes light to be confined to the core of the fiber by total internal reflection at the boundary between the two. Light propagation in the cladding is suppressed in typical fiber. Some fibers can support cladding modes in which light propagates in the cladding as well as the core. (From Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188)
The numerical aperture of a fiber is a function of the indices of refraction of the cladding and the core by:
$$\mathrm{NA}=\sqrt{n_\mathrm{core}^2-n_\mathrm{clad}^2}$$
Most glass fibers have a cladding that raises the total outer diameter to 125 microns.
Cladding is the application of one material over another to provide skin or layer intended to control the infiltration of weather elements, or for aesthetic purposes. Cladding does not necessarily have to provide a waterproof condition but is instead a control element. This control element may only serve to safely direct water or wind in order to control run-off and prevent infiltration into the building structure. This is also a control element to prevent noise from entering or escaping. Cladding applied to windows is often referred to as window capping and is a very specialized field.
Usage examples of "cladding".
It was surprisingly close to the lodge, but well screened by trees and shrubs, a fair-sized house with fine pargeting and black and white timber cladding.
I greedily absorbed the sight, which in truth was nothing more than a smooth metal bulge with a flat base, attached by three meters of electric cabling to a block of polystyrene cladding which I knew contained an instrument panel and a racked array of levers.
Reinforced concrete frames, Marya remembered, and prestressed panels for the walls, exterior cladding in a stone and brick checkerboard that matched the older part of the chateau without trying to imitate it.
Though these came in all sizes, they were all essentially of the same design: a fat cylinder of some transparent cladding, ribbed with metal, provided on both sides with caterpillar treads bearing cleats so large that they could also serve as paddles where the going underfoot became especially sloppy.
The text ended a few inches above the highest layer of cladding, and something else began, extending downwards out of sight.
Robots, being metallic in exterior cladding and sexless in design--despite the “he” or “she” designations that their owners tended to hang on them--had no need for clothing, neither as protection against the elements nor as any sort of shield for modesty.
I wonder what Edinburgh District Council would have said when they submitted plans for an office block with twenty storeys of stone cladding and a used-car lot in the forecourt.
In the area to the rear, Reyd Orne and Merlin Friet were working amid a tangle of instrumentation wiring sprouting from where the outer metal cladding had been removed from the original Valkyrie array—about the size of a regular door but thicker, mounted horizontally in a steel frame wreathed in tubes and power cabling.
The titanium cladding on its front was brushed to resist fingerpints, and upon close inspection, the tiny ridges of the burnishing were actually sawtooth waves, which reversed direction with suspicious periodicity.