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名詞

shuttering (countable and uncountable, plural shutterings)

1. The act of closing something with shutters.
2. (figurative) The winding down of a business, a publication, etc.
   • 2013, Richard J. Arndt, Horror Comics in Black and White: A History and Catalog, 1964-2004:

     In the long run, Marvel's B&W newsstand efforts outlasted the closing and shutterings of both Skywald and Warren's doors but the longest lived of their horror titles only lasted two years, from 1973–1975.

3. (construction) Formwork.

   Synonym: shutters (plural)

   • 1977, Jaques Heyman, Equilibrium of Shell Structures, Clarendon Press, Oxford, page 107:

     [I]n practice, small deformations will occur in the shell on striking the shuttering, or... alternatively, some small deformations are due to slightly imperfect placing of the original formwork.