landing: Meaning and Definition of

land•ing

Pronunciation: (lan'ding), [key]
— n.
  1. the act of a person or thing that lands: The pilot brought his plane in for a landing.
  2. a place where persons or goods are landed, as from a ship: The boat moored at the landing.
    1. a platform between flights of stairs.
    2. the floor at the head or foot of a flight of stairs.
    1. the overlap of two plates or planks, as in a clinker-built shell.
    2. the distance between the center of a rivet hole and the edge of the plate or shape into which it is cut.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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