A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.
A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.
present participle and gerund of gather
That gathers together.
She was worried by the gathering stormclouds.
From Middle English gadering, from Old English gaderung (“gathering, assembly”), equivalent to gather + -ing (verbal noun ending).
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