bridging

The act of building a bridge.

Adjective

  1. That acts as a bridge (in many contexts)
    • Loading and unloading between platform and train are carried out at the busier stations by means of fork-lift trucks and at smaller points by bridging boards or lifting platforms. - 1964 May, “News and Comment: WR's new...

Noun

  1. The act of building a bridge.
    • With him were 60,000 combat engineers for multiple bridgings of the river, and hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies, landing craft, and amphibious vehicles. - 2007, Stanley Weintraub, 15 Stars: Eisenhower,...
  2. The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight.
    • All the joists and bridgings of the mezzanine floor to have stout double herringbone strutting not more than 6 feet apart. - 1860, Thomas Leverton Donaldson, William Cunningham Glen, Handbook of Specifications, page 319:

Forms

bridgings

Related

bridging plate immunobridging nonbridging overbridging

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of bridge