noun. A metal coating bonded onto another metal under high pressure and temperature.

noun. The process of forming such a coating.

noun. A protective or insulating layer fixed to the outside of a building or another structure.

noun. Clothing; clothes.

noun. Clothing; clothes.

noun. Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fiber.

noun. a weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building (called siding in the US).

verb. Present participle of clad.

noun. a protective covering that protects the outside of a building

"A fifty-pound chunk of steel was missing from the reactor, and the only thing holding the coolant in was the stainless cladding, which is paperthin, and which bulged out the hole like bubblegum."

protection  protective cover  protective covering  

revetement  revetment  stone facing  

3/4-inch  amphora  atypia  compostable  dienophile  

clad