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say it: SHEEL-ding
shielding is a noun meaning "the act of shielding from harm". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the act of shielding from harm
a shield of lead or concrete intended as a barrier to radiation emitted in nuclear decay
shield consisting of an arrangement of metal mesh or plates designed to protect electronic equipment from ambient electromagnetic interference
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shielding come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.