Capping

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A cover used to finish or protect anything; in building, a coping.
  • noun. In mining, the rock between a vein of ore and the overlying soil.
  • noun. In geology, the uppermost formation of an area, usually a more resistant stratum than those immediately underlying: sometimes used also to designate the Quaternary covering of drift or alluvium.
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  • verb. Present participle of cap.
  • noun. The act of removing one's hat as a token of respect.
  • noun. rock that overlies a mineral deposit
  • noun. the process of covering a borehole in order to seal an oil well
  • noun. the selling of a security etc close to an expiry date
  • noun. the conversion of a polyhedron into a stellated polyhedron by raising a pyramid on each face
  • Word Usage
    "But DSL capping is just pure greed I will never support this crap, I may just go back to dial-up and say to h3ll with cable and dsl altogether."
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    cap