1. tamping - Noun
2. tamping - Adjective
3. tamping - Verb
of Tamp
The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine.
The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLepidopt didn't know if he was one of those pipe smokers who always had the thing in his mouth and talked around the stem, or one of the ones who was always fiddling with it in his hands, tamping it and relighting it and shoving a pipe cleaner down it; they were different sorts of men. Tim Powers
Staten Island will test the city and state’s strategy of tamping down clusters of cases as they emerge, as officials did in Orthodox Jewish sections of Brooklyn and Queens recently and in Sunset Park in Brooklyn and Soundview in the Bronx. Source: Internet
Later that day, Mr. Azar seemed to be tamping down the level of concern. Source: Internet
So the search giant on Tuesday announced new privacy controls aimed at tamping down concerns that the software is spying on you. Source: Internet