Bysurface analysis,age +-ing.
aging
- presentparticiple andgerund ofage
aging (countable anduncountable,pluralagings)
(US, Canada)
- The process of becoming older or moremature.
- Thedeliberate process of making something (such as anantique) appear (or, in science fiction, become) older than it is.
- (gerontology) The accumulation of damage tomacromolecules,cells,tissues andorgans with the passage of time; the progressingloss ofhealth, mobility,vibrancy and bodyfunctionality, resulting in biologicaldeath.
- Synonym:senescence
- Wear;wear and tear.
the process of becoming older or more mature
- Albanian:plakje (sq) f
- Arabic:شَيْخُوخَة f(šayḵūḵa),هَرَم (ar) m(haram)
- Azerbaijani:qocalma(of people),köhnəlmə(of things)
- Belarusian:старэ́нне n(starénnje)
- Bulgarian:старе́ене n(staréene)
- Catalan:envelliment (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:老化 (zh)(lǎohuà)
- Czech:stárnutí (cs) n
- Danish:aldring c
- Dutch:veroudering (nl) f
- Estonian:vananemine
- Finnish:vanheneminen (fi),ikääntyminen (fi)
- French:vieillissement (fr) m
- Galician:envellecemento (gl) m
- Georgian:დაბერება(dabereba),მომწიფება(momc̣ipeba),ასაკის მატება(asaḳis maṭeba)
- German:Altern (de) n,Alterung f
- Hebrew:הִזְדַּקְּנוּת f(hizdak'nút)
- Hindi:आयुवृद्धि f(āyuvŕddhi)
- Hungarian:öregedés (hu),idősödés
- Indonesian:penuaan (id)
- Italian:invecchiamento (it) m
- Japanese:老化 (ja)(ろうか, rōka)
- Kazakh:қартаю(qartaü)
- Korean:노화(老化) (ko)(nohwa),로화(老化) (ko)(rohwa)(North Korea)
- Kyrgyz:картаюу(kartayuu)
- Latvian:novecošana f
- Lithuanian:senavimas m
- Macedonian:стареење n(stareenje)
- Malay:penuaan (ms)
- Ngazidja Comorian:uɗuhazi class11
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:aldring (no) m orf
- Persian:پیری (fa)(piri),پیرش(pireš),سالخوردگی (fa)(sâlxordegi)
- Polish:starzenie się (pl) n
- Portuguese:envelhecimento (pt) m
- Romanian:îmbătrânire (ro) f
- Russian:старе́ние (ru) n(starénije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:ста̏ре̄ње n
- Roman:stȁrēnje (sh) n
- Slovak:starnutie n
- Slovene:staranje n
- Spanish:envejecimiento (es) m
- Swedish:åldrande (sv) n
- Tajik:пиршавӣ(piršavi),кӯхнашавӣ(küxnašavi),солхурдаги(solxurdag-i)
- Turkish:yaşlanma (tr)
- Ukrainian:старі́ння n(starínnja),ста́ріння n(stárinnja)
- Uzbek:qarish (uz)
- Vietnamese:sự lão hoá
- Volapük:bäldikam
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the deliberate process of making something (such as an antique) appear older than it is
aging (comparativemoreaging,superlativemostaging)
- Becomingelderly.
Theaging artist could no longer steadily hold the brush.
- Comparative and superlative forms are rare.