housing

noun

exterior case or enclosure used to protect an interior mechanism (considered an integral part of the equipment as opposed to packaging)
provision of a home or other shelter

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊzɪŋ/ / /ˈhaʊsɪŋ/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English housynge, housinge, from housen (“to house, shelter; receive into one's house”), equivalent to house + -ing. Cognate with Scots housing (“housing”), Old Frisian hūsinge (whence Saterland Frisian Huzenge); compare also Dutch huizing, behuizing (“housing”), Low German husing, hüsing (“housing”), German Behausung (“housing”), Swedish inhysing (“housing”).

The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
Residences, collectively.
“She lives in low-income housing.”
A mechanical component's container or covering.
“The gears were grinding against their housing.”
A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.
A niche for a statue.
That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
A houseline.

verb

Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

present participle and gerund of house
“We are housing the company's servers in Florida.”