fogging

Pluralfoggings (some meanings)

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of fog.

   The windshield was fogging over faster than the defroster could clear it.

   Fogging the issue with jargon will not help the committee reach a decision.

   Note

   The final g doubles before -ing, as it does in fogged, so the spelling is fogging, never foging. The form follows every use of fog, literal or figurative: a windshield fogging over, a speaker fogging the issue, stray light fogging a frame of film. Without an object it usually takes over or up; with one, it means clouding or confusing the thing named.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The act or process of blurring something or making it foggy.

   An anti-fog coating reduces fogging of the goggles in cold water.

   Light leaking into the old camera caused fogging on several frames of the film.

   Similarmisting, clouding, blurring

3. 3
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The release of insecticide into a forest canopy as a way of collecting the organisms that live in it.

   Canopy fogging at dawn yielded thousands of beetles, many of them new to the survey.

   Each fogging covered a single tree, and the falling insects were caught on trays spread beneath it.

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