Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Seating \Seat"ing\, n.
   1. The act of providong with a seat or seats; as, the seating
      of an audience.

   2. The act of making seats; also, the material for making
      seats; as, cane seating.

Seat \Seat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Seated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Seating}.]
   1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat
      one's self.

            The guests were no sooner seated but they entered
            into a warm debate.                   --Arbuthnot.

   2. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like;
      to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.

            Thus high . . . is King Richard seated. --Shak.

            They had seated themselves in New Guiana. --Sir W.
                                                  Raleigh.

   3. To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting
      to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.

   4. To fix; to set firm.

            From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They
            plucked the seated hills.             --Milton.

   5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a
      country. [Obs.] --W. Stith.

   6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.

Source : WordNet®

seating
     n 1: an area that includes seats for several people; "there is
          seating for 40 students in this classroom" [syn: {seats},
           {seating room}, {seating area}]
     2: the service of ushering people to their seats