shelling

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛlɪŋ/
Rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ

Verb

shelling

present participle and gerund of shell

Noun

shelling (countable and uncountable, plural shellings)

An artillery bombardment.
The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
(uncountable) Grain from which the husk has been removed.
(topology) An ordering of the facets of a boundary complex such that the intersection of each facet (other than the first) with the union of all preceding facets is homeomorphic to a ball or sphere. See Shelling (topology)
Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar.

Translations

artillery bombardment

Arabic: قَصْف (qaṣf)
Belarusian: абстрэ́л m (abstrél)
Catalan: bombardeig (ca) m, bombardament (ca) m
Czech: ostřelování n
Finnish: tykistötuli
French: bombardement (fr) m
German: Bombardierung (de) f
Italian: bombardamento (it) m
Russian: обстре́л (ru) m (obstrél)
Spanish: bombardeo (es) m
Ukrainian: о́бстріл m (óbstril)

removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.

Finnish: kuoriminen (fi)

grain from which the husk has been removed

topology: way of ordering of the facets of a boundary complex

shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating

Finnish: halkeilu (fi)

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