Thesaurus results for HOUSINGS

housings

noun

plural of housing

as in sheaths

something that encloses another thing especially to protect it a camera with a waterproof housing for taking pictures of coral reefs and other underwater features

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Recent Examples of housings The sturdy plastic housings resist fading and cracking and are brown in color to blend with most outdoor surfaces. —

Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Mar. 2026 Traditional outdoor TVs, with thick bezels and industrial housings, often disrupt that balance, becoming visual anchors rather than complements. —

Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 20 Jan. 2026 Finding housings to protect them is also a problem. —

Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2026 Batch tabletop miniatures for a weekend campaign, produce cosplay armor sections that fit together cleanly, or prototype brackets and housings for clients with consistent results. —

Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2025 Complementing the advanced drivers are housings handcrafted from beech, the same wood used to make parts of Yamaha’s pianos. —

Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025 Floor mats that are hand-dyed using paint spray feature a blue-to-orange ombre look, which carries over to the speaker housings and other gear and button surrounds. —

Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Opt for bigger hanging bulbs, discrete flickers, or even hanging sheaths.

— Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2026
The payload was designed to test a hypersonic navigation system capable of accurately identifying spacecraft position, even when communications are blocked by intense plasma sheaths during hypersonic flight.

— Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 1 Apr. 2026