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Thin metallic layer
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plating
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plate \Plate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Plating .] To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping. To cover or overlay with plates of metal; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As the foil plating was thicker it may have been found more durable than mercury plating. ▪ But when the cross-section is viewed at high magnification, it becomes clear that different plating methods have been used. ▪ It is an ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context philately English) An act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet. 2 A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal. 3 A coating or defensive armour of metal plates. vb. (present participle of plate English)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In geology , plating is a hypothesized process whereby asthenospheric mantle hardens beneath crustal material, thereby becoming attached to it and thereafter moving together with the crustal material as part of the lithosphere . A complementary process, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface [syn: metal plating ] the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis)
Usage examples of plating.
That in itself would generally not have damaged the heavy plating typical of Belter construction.
I evacuated the air from the space between his lung and sternal plating and sealed the rupture.
Joe Swingle howled in shock and landed on his head with one shoulder against the port side clinker plating.
Off to his right, an ankylosaur ambled through the woods, bearing several tons of bone plating on its heavy frame.
CHAPTER 30 MONDAY, 13 MAY 1143 GREENWICH MEAN TIME bohai haixia strait USS tampa 1943 beijing time The noise of the explosions was loud, even through two inches of HY-80 high-yield steel hull plating.
Ryder gathered himself and balanced over the tow line, which was now stretched tight as an iron bar through its fairlead in the stern plating.
Legionnaire cutting apart the air with hot, lethal metal, hammering several hundred fifty-millimeter slugs into the nose of the Jagatai and peeling away several layers of its thick armor plating.
Bone and subdermal plating crushed inward, cutting into the vulnerable brain tissue beneath.
And the flakpanzers, moving forward and risking their thin plating to hose their quadruple 20mm autocannon over the village, short bursts that hit like horizontal explosive hailstorms.
He was carrying a twenty-millimeter projectile pistol, a nasty weapon designed for use inside a ship, its slug heavy and relatively slow moving, incapable of penetrating the shell plating or bulkheads of a ship.
Just as reinforced concrete or armor plating nullified the shells, so countercharms and protective procedures rendered relatively futile the most violent onslaughts.
So, when the Jackdaws nearly knocked him down in their rush of wings, and their sharp beaks and claws threatened to damage his brilliant plating, the Woodman picked up his axe and made it whirl swiftly around his head.
As the air shrilled through the spiracles on its sides, as its eyes seemed to bulge from the immobile plating on its round head, it struggled to control the emotion that hurried disintegration nearer.
Blackene hunks of the command bunker's armor plating lay strewn around human-sized pit already nearly a meter deep.
Within fractions of a second the clumps had started to disperse—but not before more photinos had clustered around the complex pattern of baryonic matter, rapidly plating over its internal structure.