shattering
Verb
  1. present participle of shatter#English|shatter
Noun

shattering (plural shatterings)

  1. The act of something that shatters.
    • 1997, J. Wright, Realism and Explanatory Priority (page 226)
      It seems reasonable to conjecture that there is some property that is responsible for all the shatterings, because the operations that have produced the shatterings have all been similar (droppings of glass) […]



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