CLUMPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clumping mean? 

• CLUMPING (noun)
  The noun CLUMPING has 1 sense:

1. the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface

  Familiarity information: CLUMPING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLUMPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

clip-clop; clippety-clop; clop; clopping; clumping; clunking

Hypernyms ("clumping" is a kind of...):

sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)

 Context examples 

Just now it's the fashion to be hideous, to make your head look like a scrubbing brush, wear a strait jacket, orange gloves, and clumping square-toed boots.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A drug that prevents blood cell clumping and enhances the effectiveness of fluorouracil and other chemotherapeutic agents.

(Dipyridamole, NCI Dictionary)

A balance of proteins in cells helps maintain health, but an unhealthy clumping can lead to a variety of diseases, including those connected to aging such as Alzheimer's.

(New Pathway for Handling Stress Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Antiplatelet drugs, such as aspirin, prevent blood cells called platelets from clumping together to form a clot.

(Blood Thinners, NIH)

They developed a model that suggests that debris that was pushed into space from an asteroid or other body slamming into Mars around 4.3 billion years ago alternates between becoming a planetary ring and clumping together to form a moon.

(Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day, NASA)

An autoantibody against a red blood cell surface antigen that causes the cells to clump when the blood is cooled below the normal body temperature (the clumping is most pronounced at temperatures below 78 degrees).

(Cold Agglutinin, NCI Thesaurus)

It's a little thing to do, but it gives her pleasure, and I don't believe it will hurt your things half so much as letting dirty dogs and clumping boys spoil them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)