"bottoming" meaning in English

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      "form": "bottomings",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1961, The Shock and Vibration Bulletin (issue 29, part 4, page 159)",
          "text": "In the course of this investigation, it was learned that the mean number of bottomings per second could be calculated theoretically […]"
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        "The act of something that bottoms (in various senses)."
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          "text": "[…] and like that of Birrens, rest upon stone bottomings. The Antonine Wall is of the same construction, only on a larger scale.",
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        "A foundation."
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        "The act of something that bottoms (in various senses)."
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        "A foundation."
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