Usually means: Reduction of oscillation or vibration.
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  1. damping: Merriam-Webster
  2. damping: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. damping: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. damping: Collins English Dictionary
  5. damping: Vocabulary.com
  6. Damping, damping: Wordnik
  7. damping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. damping: Wiktionary
  9. damping: Dictionary.com
  10. Damping (music), Damping: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Damping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Damping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. damping: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. damping: FreeDictionary.org
  15. damping: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Damping: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. damping: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. damping: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. damping: Medical dictionary

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  1. damping: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Damping: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Damping: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. damping: The Folk File

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Damping: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. damping: Electronics
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. PUMP AND SEAL TERMS (No longer online)
  6. Damping: Fiberglass Glossary
  7. DAMPING: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
  8. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  9. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  10. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See damp as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (damping)

noun:  A dampening; a making wet.
noun:  (mechanics) The reduction in the magnitude of oscillations by the dissipation of energy
noun:  (mechanics) The stabilization of a physical system by reducing oscillation

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