Cladding is the covering of one material with another. It may refer to the following:

• Cladding (metalworking)
• Cladding (fiber optics)
• Cladding (construction)
  • Copper cladding
  • Rainscreen cladding
• Cladding (nuclear fuel)
• Cladding (boiler)

Noun

cladding (countable and uncountable; plural claddings)

1. Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fiber.
2. (construction) a weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building (called siding in the US).

cladding

1. Present participle of clad.