Sizing
/ˈsaɪ.zɪŋ/noun
The act or process of determining, adjusting, or applying a size; in manufacturing, a coating or treatment used to stiffen or protect material.
Did you know?In textile and paper work, sizing was a practical kind of surface magic: a coating that changed how cloth, thread, or paper behaved, which is why the word became tied to control, preparation, and exact measurement.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*sed-
“to sit, set, place”
Latin
Latin
sedēre
“to sit, settle, be fixed”
Old French
Old French
assise
“a sitting, settlement; a fixed legal assessment”
Middle English
English
sise, sise(n)
“to regulate or determine the size of something; also to coat material with sizing”
Modern English
English
sizing
“the act or process of making something a certain size or of applying sizing to material”