Kettering

American  

[ket-er-ing] / ˈkɛt ər ɪŋ /

noun

1. Charles Franklin, 1876–1958, U.S. engineer and inventor.

2. a city in SW Ohio.

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Kettering British  

/ ˈkɛtərɪŋ /

noun

1. a town in central England, in Northamptonshire: footwear industry. Pop: 51 063 (2001)

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Example Sentences

But my family’s health insurance, supplied by their labor union, wouldn’t cover care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where I had 33 radiation treatments.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

Kettering Town, nicknamed the Poppies, spawned an industry worth hundreds of millions of pounds when Kettering Tyres appeared on their shirts on 24 January 1976.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Ravetch's group is now collaborating with scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering and Duke University to further evaluate the therapy.

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026

Torbay, Kettering and Musgrove Park hospitals are all delayed – they are estimated to be open nine to ten years later than under the previous plan.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

Immediately afterwards, Mr. Clarke, of St. Alban's, gave the charge to me; and Mr. Saunders, of Kettering, the exhortation to the people; and Mr. Mattock concluded the whole solemnity by prayer.

From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Coleman, Thomas