Usually means: Residue from mining ore processing.
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  1. tailings: Merriam-Webster
  2. tailings: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tailings: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tailings: Vocabulary.com
  5. Tailings, tailings: Wordnik
  6. tailings: Wiktionary
  7. tailings: Dictionary.com
  8. Tailings (mining), Tailings: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. tailings: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. tailings: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tailings: Energy Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tailings (mining), tailings: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (tailings)

noun:  (mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining.
noun:  (alcohol production) The feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation.
noun:  (agriculture) Inferior or damaged grain, as well as seeds of other plants (weeds), removed from grain before milling or sowing.

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