SETTLING | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

settling

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

To achieve high throughput capability, such motion induced vibration would have to be damped quickly, to reduce settling time of the platform position and orientation. From the Cambridge English Corpus She seems to have examined the data from different perspectives before settling on a particular interpretation. From the Cambridge English Corpus The difficulty in settling these questions stems from the fact that one deals with complicated multidimensional oscillatory integrals. From the Cambridge English Corpus Given these resource limits, a strategy of constantly starting from scratch-of never treating prior decisions as settling a practical question-would r un into obvious difficulties. From the Cambridge English Corpus Some other evidence for this proposition will be considered in the course of this article, though settling the debate over it lies outside my purpose. From the Cambridge English Corpus Of great significance here is that third parties were not necessarily trusted for their ability to be effective in settling disputes. From the Cambridge English Corpus The extensive use of absorbing barriers was precluded by the nature of the experiment and resulted in rather long settling times for the basin. From the Cambridge English Corpus It would have been preferable to leave the contents of the string unspecified rather than prematurely settling on an inadequate standard. From the Cambridge English Corpus They also offered individuals an alternative to the courts for settling disputes. From the Cambridge English Corpus But allowance has to be made for a certain amount of settling old scores. From the Cambridge English Corpus Nor was there only one way of settling public disputes. From the Cambridge English Corpus We also know that settling ponds are key tools for reducing water pollution and the spread of disease. From the Cambridge English Corpus The assumption may be held to imply that the predominant consideration in settling questions of distributive justice is always citizenship itself. From the Cambridge English Corpus Scholars now suggest that this violence was managed, often emerging as a means of settling grievances between planters and older inhabitants. From the Cambridge English Corpus After settling the final form in a clay model, it was enlarged to a fullscale set of plaster fragments in his workshop. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.