stringing

The act by which something is strung.

Noun

  1. The act by which something is strung.
    • One of the family's diversions was singing "quodlibets." These "what-you-wills" were simply stringings together of various melodies […] - 1948, Alfred Louis Bacharach, The music masters: including Lives of the great...
  2. A defect in 3D printing where strings or whiskers of material are left on the finished product.
    • When a printer is extruding and has open spaces in a layer, printers pull the filament back so that stringing does not occur. - 2015, Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron, 3D Printing with MatterControl, page 153:

    Synonyms: oozing

Forms

stringings

Derived

spaghetti stringing

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of string