- having a bottom of a specified character
- (Bottoming (bending)) Bending is a manufacturing process that produces a V-shape, U-shape, or channel shape along a straight axis in ductile materials, most commonly sheet metal.Manufacturing Processes Reference Guide, Industrial Press Inc., 1994. ...
- (Bottoming) Forming operation in which the punch and the die is closed completely on the workpiece. See Press Brake Chapter.
- (also called bottoming out)-when a suspension component reaches the end of its travel under compression. Bottoming is the opposite of topping out.
- (BOTTOMING) Stamping or impressing a stamp or die to the background of characters, design; ironing out upset or metal displaced by the stamping die.
- (Bottoming) A noise and jolt created when the compression cycle of the suspension ends at the bump stops.
- (Bottoming) The attachment of the lasted footwear to the sole by direct or indirect method of construction.
- (Bottoming) The complete process of cutting and folding a bottom in a tube for pasted end bags. On certain machines, it also refers to forming the valve end of the pasted end sack.
- (Bottoming) The process of fastening the upper, midsole, and outsole together during the assembly process. Performed either by stitching or direct injection.
- (Bottoming) There is downward pressure on the stock but the pressure is lessening with each passing day.
- (Bottoming) When a car's chassis hits the track surface, sometimes making sparks fly. This is because the suspension has hit the maximum amount of compression it can take, for example due to increased downforce
- (Bottoming) When a suspension travels to the maximum limit of it’s downward design. When jounce bumpers contact their mating surface. (See also jounce and rebound)
- (Bottoming) When the floor of the car strikes the track.
- (Bottoming) the shaping of insoles, heels and soles. The ‘bottom’ is the under part of a shoe.
- The bottom of a shaft which has broken through the layer of sandstone which lies immediately above the opal dirt