covering

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌvəɹɪŋ/

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Etymology 1

Present participle or participial adjective from cover (verb) +‎ -ing; or, from Middle English participle form of coveren, keveren (“to cover”).

Verb

covering

1. present participle and gerund of cover

Etymology 2

From Middle English coverynge, -inge, keverynge, -inge [verbal noun of coveren, keveren (“to cover”)]; or, verbal noun from cover (verb) +‎ -ing.

Noun

covering (countable and uncountable, plural coverings)

1. (countable) That which covers or conceals; a cover; something spread or laid over or wrapped about another.
   • 2020 May 20, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: More trains... but advice is not to use public transport”, in Rail, page 6:

     Face covering is also mentioned: "There are some circumstances when wearing a face covering may be marginally beneficial as a precautionary measure. The evidence suggests that wearing a face covering does not protect you, but it may protect others if you are infected but have not yet developed symptoms. [...] If you can, wear a face covering if you need to use public transport."

2. (uncountable) Action of the verb to cover.
3. (topology, of a given open set $U$) A collection of sets $\{U_{i}\}$ such that their union contains $U$; such a collection with the additional property that every $U_{i}$ is open; such a collection with the additional property that every $U_{i}$ is contained in $U$.
5. (topology) A special kind of map that establishes a relationship between two topological spaces in the sense that, under the action of the map, the one looks locally like several copies of the second: Formally, a continuous map $\pi :E\rightarrow X$ between topological spaces such that there exists, for every point $x$ in $X$, a discrete space $D_{x}$ and an open neighborhood $U$ of $x$ such that $\pi ^{-1}(U)=\displaystyle \bigsqcup _{d\in D_{x}}V_{d}$ and $\pi |_{V_{d}}:V_{d}\rightarrow U$ is a homeomorphism for every $d\in D_{x}$. See Covering space on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Usage notes

In sense sense 4, properly, the map $\pi$ is the covering, and $E$ is called the covering space, but by abuse of terminology, "covering" may refer to $E$, "covering space" may refer to $\pi$, and either may refer to the tuple $(E,\pi )$.

Derived terms

• bedcovering
• face covering
• floorcovering
• head covering
• precovering
• semicovering
• subcovering
• undercovering
• wall covering
• wallcovering
• window covering

 

Translations

that which covers something

• Armenian: պատյան (hy) (patyan), ծածկոց (hy) (cackocʻ), շապիկ (hy) (šapik)
• Bulgarian: покривка (bg) f (pokrivka), облицовка (bg) f (oblicovka)
• Finnish: peite (fi)
• German: Abdeckung (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌿𐌻𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍂 n (hulistr)
• Greek:

  Ancient: σκέπασμα n (sképasma)

• Hebrew: כיסוי m (kisui), עֲטִיפָה f ('atifá)
• Hungarian: burkolat (hu), borítás (hu)
• Ingrian: kate
• Irish: cumhdach m
• Latin: integumentum n, operculum n, tegimen n, tegumentum n
• Manx: coodagh m
• Maori: tūpuni
• Scottish Gaelic: sgàile f, pùball m