Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The material, as cloth, felt, etc., from which a jacket is made.
- noun A jacket; a cover or protection to an inanimate object, as the felt covering of a steam-pipe.
- noun A thrashing.
- Surrounding or protecting as a jacket: in physical, said of a layer of insulating material surrounding a calorimeter or other chamber to prevent the inflow or egress of heat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The material of a jacket.
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- verb Present participle of
jacket .
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Examples
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In some years, potentially, ordinary household wire may be available with non-halogenated jacketing, meaning that those damaging materials will not be entering into the environment as construction waste when it reaches its end-of-use.
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It was really an offence to me when the jacketing ceased.
Chapter 20 2010
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But I had grown too used to the jacket during my incorrigible days to let a single jacketing injure me.
Chapter 8 2010
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On occasion, when I had endured an extra severe jacketing, he almost pleaded with me to confess.
Chapter 8 2010
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I learned to suffer passively as undoubtedly, all men have learned who have passed through the postgraduate courses of strait-jacketing.
Chapter 9 2010
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I was never the same man after that double-jacketing.
Chapter 20 2010
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I emerged from that first jacketing filled with a bitterness and a passionate hatred that has only increased through the years.
Chapter 7 2010
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"One-tenth the jacketing I have received in San Quentin would have squeezed your rabbit heart out of your long ears."
Chapter 11 2010
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"Make it a triple jacketing," I managed to continue, while the cell walls swayed and reeled about me and while I fought with all my will to hold to my consciousness that was being squeezed out of me by the jackets.
Chapter 20 2010
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Very few men born of women have been fortunate enough to suffer years of solitary and strait-jacketing.
Chapter 17 2010
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These tubes often have 12 pieces of fiber inside of them. Multiple buffer tubes containing multiple strands of fiber continue to be wrapped around each other and layered. The final step of the process is called jacketing, putting the final protective layer around the tubes to create a cable that you’d see outside — what internet service providers purchase in order to install fiber internet.
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