sprinking
Sprinking is a term used in some technical and culinary contexts to describe the light, controlled distribution of small particles or droplets over a surface. It is a relatively obscure, nonstandard term and is not universally defined in standard dictionaries. In practice, sprinking is often treated as a mid-ground concept between dusting (dry particulate deposition) and spraying (wet deposition with higher spread).
Definitions and usage vary by field. In agriculture and horticulture, sprinking may refer to applying micronutrients
Techniques and equipment: hand-held shakers or sieved sprinklers for dry sprinking; pneumatic or atomizing devices used
History and terminology: The term appears sporadically in vendor literature and online discourse since the early