buckling
adjEtymology From the verb to buckle, equivalent to buckle + -ing.
1
Wavy; curly, as hair.
buckling
noun/ˈbʌk.əl.ɪŋ/
Etymology From the verb to buckle, equivalent to buckle + -ing.
1
The act of fastening a buckle.
3
The action of giving in (slightly) to pressure or stress by developing a bulge, bending or kinking (with the eventual risk of collapsing).
- Engineers decided not to use hydraulics, to ensure there was no twisting or buckling to the 80-tonne girder structure.2021 July 14, “Network News: Network Rail engineers raise Machynlleth bridge”, in RAIL, number 935, page 27:
- The rail might still buckle when it's extremely cold. A signals box, that's a metal box on the side of the right of way, might still overheat. So we need to make sure that our operational capacity to respond to those potential disruptions and address them as quickly as possible is a really robust part of our operations. Rail buckling is kind of part of the business in some capacity. That's what we hear from other transit agencies working in the South for example, with extreme heat.2026 May 6, “How the MBTA Handles Climate Change” (35:36 from the start), in Spilling the T (podcast), spoken by Caroline Bean, MBTA:
- Derived terms
- postbuckling