capping meaning

• noun
  1. The action of the verb cap
  2. A covering, eg a hard crust that forms on soil during dry weather
  3. A graduation ceremony (informal)
• 
  [Architecture]
  

  Any architectural member serving as a cap, 1, such as a coping.

• 
  [Engineering]
  Preparation of a capped fuse.
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  [Finance]
  1. The practice of selling large amounts of a commodity or security close to the options expiry date in order to prevent a rise in market price.

[Oil and gas]
The term referring to the method by which uncontrolled flow from a wellbore is halted or placed under control.

• capping in:    [Architecture]The ...
• capping brick:    [Architecture]Same ...
• capping plane:    [Architecture]A pl ...

Examples

1. production line for filling oral liquid-capping machine
2. exclusively developed end-capping technique
3. standard practice for capping cylindrical concrete specimens
4. beverage hot-filling and screw capping machine
5. analysis of a welding structure destroy of a pressure tube capping