Usually means: Loss of stability under compression.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word buckling:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. buckling: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. buckling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. buckling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Buckling, buckling: Wordnik
  5. buckling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. buckling: Wiktionary
  7. Buckling, buckling: Dictionary.com
  8. buckling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Buckling (disambiguation), Buckling (fish), Buckling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Buckling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. buckling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Buckling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. buckling: Free Dictionary
  14. buckling: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buckling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. buckling: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buckling: Idioms

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

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  3. Buckling (Composite): Fiberglass Glossary

(Note: See buckle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (buckling)

noun:  The act of fastening a buckle.
noun:  (geology) A folding into hills and valleys.
noun:  The action of giving in (slightly) to pressure or stress by developing a bulge, bending or kinking (with the eventual risk of collapsing).
adjective:  Wavy; curly, as hair.
noun:  A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
noun:  Smoked herring.

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