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Lagging vs Cladding - What's the difference?

lagging | cladding |

As nouns the difference between lagging and cladding

is that lagging is the covering of something with strips of felt, wood etc, either as insulation or for protection while cladding is clothing; clothes.

As verbs the difference between lagging and cladding

is that lagging is present participle of lang=en while cladding is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective lagging

is falling behind, not keeping up the pace.

lagging

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • falling behind, not keeping up the pace
  • Occurring after; indicating the later phase of
  • *

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "lagging")

    Coordinate terms

    * (occurring after) leading, concurrent

    Derived terms

    * lagging indicator

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The covering of something with strips of felt, wood etc, either as insulation or for protection
  • The material so used

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Related terms

    * laggard

    cladding

    English

    (wikipedia cladding)

    Noun

  • (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).

    • Verb

    (head)