shielding
/ʃiːldɪŋ/ · shield·ing
verb
- To protect or defend something or someone. The army was shielding the civilians from the incoming attack.
- To protect someone or something from the influence of something else. She was shielding her child from the harsh realities of the world.
noun
- The situation in NMR spectroscopy where a local magnetic field is weakened by the presence of neighbouring nuclei. The shielding effect in the NMR spectrum was crucial for understanding the molecular structure.
- Action done by a person with the ball to protect it from a defender, keeping their body between the ball and the defender. The player used shielding to protect the ball from the opponent's tackle.
Did you know? The concept of shielding in NMR spectroscopy was first described by Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell in their 1946 Nobel Prize-winning work on nuclear magnetic resonance.