threading

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɹɛdɪŋ/

threading

1. present participle and gerund of thread

threading (countable and uncountable, plural threadings)

1. The act or process by which something is threaded (in various senses).
   • 2011, Alexander Gelbukh, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, page 236:

     The majority, 96.2 percent, of the e-mails had only up to four threadings.

2. An ancient Eastern method for removing hair by means of a thread, which is rolled over the hair in order to pluck it out at the follicle level.
3. (engineering) A screw thread.