hatching

A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.

Noun

  1. A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
  2. A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.
    • We got a good hatching from the swallowtail eggs.
  3. The act of an egg hatching, eclosion.
  4. Patterns used in construction drawings to represent various materials.

Forms

hatchings

Derived

cross-hatching posthatching prehatching

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of hatch