Usually means: Securing or fastening something firmly.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. latching: Merriam-Webster
  2. latching: Vocabulary.com
  3. Latching, latching: Wordnik
  4. latching: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. latching: Wiktionary
  6. latching: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Latching, latching: Dictionary.com
  8. latching: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Latching: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. latching: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Latching: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. latching: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Latching: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. latching: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. latching: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. latching: Idioms

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

(Note: See latch as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (latching)

adjective:  That latches.
noun:  The act of fastening a latch.
noun:  (nautical) A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail.
noun:  (linguistics) The situation where one speaker's utterance immediately follows another speaker's utterance, without pause or overlap.

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