Usually means: Corrosion causing small, localized cavities.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. pitting: Merriam-Webster
  2. pitting, pitting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pitting: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pitting: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pitting: Wordnik
  6. pitting: Dictionary.com
  7. Pitting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Pitting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. pitting: Rhymezone
  10. Pitting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. pitting: FreeDictionary.org
  12. pitting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. pitting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. pitting: Wiktionary
  15. pitting: Infoplease Dictionary
  16. pitting: Wordnik
  17. pitting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. pitting: Legal dictionary
  3. pitting: Financial dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pitting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pitting: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. pitting: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pitting: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pitting: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pitting: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. PUMP AND SEAL TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. PITTING: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pitting)

noun:  The formation of pits on a surface because of corrosion.
noun:  (archaeology) The digging of a pit.

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