riveting

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Verb

riveting

  1. present participle and gerund of rivet

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riveting (comparative more riveting, superlative most riveting)

  1. Commanding the attention of spectators.
    a riveting firework display

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riveting (countable and uncountable, plural rivetings)

  1. The act of joining with rivets.
  2. The act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing.
  3. A set of rivets; rivets collectively.
    • 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
      Principles working upon materials, as lathes, boring, planing, which should guide the choice of the means of supply, mortising, riveting, and screw-cutting machines.

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