seating

noun7

1. •
   The provision of chairs or other places for people to sit.

   • There is plenty of comfortable seating.
2. •
   A period of time in which people are allowed into a performance, a meal, etc., to be seated.

   • The first seating begins at 5 o'clock.
   • an exclusive restaurant offering just ten spaces per seating
3. •
   The act of one that seats.

   • The seating of passengers will begin soon.
4. •
   Collectively, the various fitted supports of the parts of a structure or of a machine; a housing in which a component is seated.
5. •
   Material for making seats.
6. •
   That part of the floor which rests on the keel.
7. •
   (no longer used) Haircloth.