latching

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of latch

1. not comparableThat latches.

   A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.

   2012 March 28, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3

plural latchings

1. The act of fastening a latch.
2. nauticalA loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail.
3. human sciencesThe situation where one speaker's utterance immediately follows another speaker's utterance, without pause or overlap.