flanging
noun
flanging is a noun meaning “A flange” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-N-G-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flanging is flangings.
What does flanging mean?
noun
- 1
A flange.
- 2
A time-based audio effect produced when two identical signals are mixed together, but with one signal time-delayed by a small and gradually changing amount, usually smaller than 20 milliseconds.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flanging
- flangings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flanging?
Flanging appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does flanging come from?
From flange + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).