Cladding vs Casing - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between cladding and casing

is that cladding is (rare) clothing; clothes while casing is that which encloses or encases.

is that cladding is while casing is .

(wikipedia cladding)

(rare) Clothing; clothes.

Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fiber.

(construction) a weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building (called siding in the US).

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(en noun)

That which encloses or encases.

Some people like to split the casing of a sausage before cooking so it doesn't burst. Others don't.

(uncountable, computing) The collective states of upper and lower case letters.

The replacement string should have the same casing as the matched text.

* sausage casing

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