seating

Verb

• Present participle of seat

Noun

• The act of one that seats.
• The provision of chairs or other places for people to sit.
• A period of time in which people are allowed into a performance, a meal, etc., to be seated.
• Material for making seats.
• Haircloth.
• Collectively, the various fitted supports of the parts of a structure or of a machine; a housing in which a component is seated.
• That part of the floor which rests on the keel.