plating

1. 1.

   a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface

   Synonymsmetal plating

   Broadercoating

   Narrowergold platesilver plate
2. 2.

   the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis)

   Broaderapplication

Other forms of plating

plural

platings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plating

What does plating mean?

plating means "a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plating?

plating has 2 syllables: pla-ting. The stress falls on "pla". In IPA it is /ˈpleɪtɪŋ/.

What is another word for plating?

Close synonyms include metal plating. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plating a common word?

plating is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.