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clad
adj
- literary:
1. Clothed.
2. Covered. Also in compounds.
- Example: velvet-clad
- Example: stone-clad
- clad, cladding
1. To cover one material with another, eg brick or stonework with a different material, especially to form a protective layer.
cladding
noun
- 1. A thin covering applied to the external surface of a building in order to improve its appearance or to give it extra protection.
2. A thin layer of an expensive metal that is used to coat a cheaper metal.
3. In nuclear reactors: a thin layer of metal that covers the fuel elements and protects them from corrosion and also prevents the release of fission products into the coolant.
4. The process whereby one material is covered with another, and the two are then bonded together under conditions of high temperature and pressure.
