surfacing

[ sur-fuh-sing ]
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noun
  1. the action or process of giving a finished surface to something.

  2. the material with which something is surfaced.

  1. the act or an instance of rising to the surface of a body of water.

Origin of surfacing

1
First recorded in 1855–60; surface + -ing1

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How to use surfacing in a sentence

  • Concrete walls, as first produced, had a forbidding ugliness; this is being remedied by surfacings of pleasant neutral tones.

    Inventors at Work | George Iles