paving

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act or technique of laying pavement.
• noun A pavement.
• noun Material used for pavement.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The laying of floors, streets, etc., with pavement, Pavement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement.
• noun A pavement.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb Present participle of pave.
• noun The hard durable surface placed directly atop the ground, as on a street or sidewalk.
• noun Interior pavement, as in a cathedral.
• adjective Pertaining to the material used for pavement, or to the surface itself.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the act of applying paving materials to an area
• noun the paved surface of a thoroughfare
• noun material used to pave an area