the practice of grouping schoolchildren according to ability to ensure a balanced intake at different levels of ability to secondary school
banding in American English
(ˈbændɪŋ)
noun
Furniture
decorative inlay, as for bordering or paneling a piece, composed of strips of wood contrasting in grain or color with the principal wood of the surface
Word origin
[1730–40; band2 + -ing1]This word is first recorded in the period 1730–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: humbug, malaria, optimism, secret service, swipe-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”
Examples of 'banding' in a sentence
banding
The time was propitious for the banding together of women in self-defence.