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(trademark) a transparent thermoplastic acrylic resin
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perspex
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context British NZ English) Any tough, transparent plastic that is used instead of glass for windows
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1935, trade name in Britain for what in the U.S. is called Plexiglas or Lucite , irregularly formed from Latin perspect- , past participle stem of perspicere "look through, look closely at" (see perspective ).
Usage examples of perspex.
And when he takes a piece of perspex and glues his various components into place, he is connecting up various dynamically active spatial patterns.
Where necessary, he arranges, aligns or structures the vacuum and subatomic energy patterns of the perspex and probably the components, too, if they do not quite do what he wants of them.
When they dispersed for lunch there was only the de-icing paste to be put on, and the perspex to be polished for the night.
Rostock, and he had held his fire until it looked as he had thought it would against the framework of the perspex, and then given it the squirt.
On his forehead was a pair of goggles, the perspex starred as though struck with a hammer.
They crowded around the reception desk, demanding to know if their loved ones were all right, shouting at the two beleaguered women trapped behind their transparent Perspex screens.
The lighting at the edges of the perspex allowed the team to use chinagraph for temporary handwork additions to the computer-fed information.
The Perspex canopy disintegrated around him and concentrated fire tore him to shreds.
Going to bed they could glimpse his lonely shadow through the perspex roof of the fives court as the Rhino tirelessly attacked the concrete wall.
Those tunnels had fallen into decay more than two centuries ago, the water boiling away in the low pressure, the thin methane-ammonia atmosphere of the planet rushing in to fill the empty riverbanks and shattered Perspex tubes.
The tailplanes of the two helicopters were too high, so he concentrated on the cockpit areas at the front, the Sandcruiser's eight tons of armoured steel crumpling the perspex with ease.