latching noun 3adjective 1forms 1 noun3 •The act of fastening a latch. •The situation where one speaker's utterance immediately follows another speaker's utterance, without pause or overlap. •A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail. adjective1 •That latches.A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. — 2012 formslatchings
