weathering

English

Etymology

From Middle English wederyng, equivalent to weather +‎ -ing.

Noun

weathering (countable and uncountable, plural weatherings)

1. (obsolete) Weather, especially favourable or fair weather.
2. (geology) Mechanical or chemical breaking down of rocks in situ by weather or other causes.
3. (architecture) A slight inclination given to an approximately horizontal surface to enable it to throw off water.
4. The action of weather on objects exposed to it.

Derived terms

• space weathering
• weathering pan
• weathering steel

Translations

breaking down of rocks

• Bulgarian: ерозия f (erozija)
• Danish: forvitring (da) c
• Dutch: verwering (nl) f
• Finnish: rapautuminen (fi)
• French: météorisation (fr) f
• German: Verwitterung f
• Hungarian: mállás (hu)
• Icelandic: veðrun
• Indonesian: pelapukan (id)
• Italian: erosione (it) f
• Japanese: 風化 (ja) (fūka)
• Maori: ngawheretanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forvitring m or f

  Nynorsk: forvitring f

• Polish: wietrzenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: intemperismo (pt) m
• Russian: выве́тривание (ru) n (vyvétrivanije)
• Spanish: meteorización (es) f
• Swedish: vittring (sv) c
• Tagalog: sapanhon
• Turkish: hava (tr)

architecture: slight inclination

• Finnish: kaato (fi)

Verb

weathering

1. present participle and gerund of weather