Crossword clues for plating
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.
Thus plated in habiliments of war.
--Shak. To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.
To beat into thin, flat pieces, or lamin[ae].
To calender; as, to plate paper.
Plating \Plat"ing\, n.
The art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition.
A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.
A coating or defensive armor of metal (usually steel) plates.
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)
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)
Wikipedia
Plating is a surface covering in which a metal is deposited on a conductive surface. Plating has been done for hundreds of years; it is also critical for modern technology. Plating is used to decorate objects, for corrosion inhibition, to improve solderability, to harden, to improve wearability, to reduce friction, to improve paint adhesion, to alter conductivity, to improve IR reflectivity, for radiation shielding, and for other purposes. Jewelry typically uses plating to give a silver or gold finish. Thin-film deposition has plated objects as small as an atom, therefore plating finds uses in nanotechnology.
There are several plating methods, and many variations. In one method, a solid surface is covered with a metal sheet, and then heat and pressure are applied to fuse them (a version of this is Sheffield plate). Other plating techniques include electroplating, vapor deposition under vacuum and sputter deposition. Recently, plating often refers to using liquids. Metallizing refers to coating metal on non-metallic objects.
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, although it does not necessarily always involve the upper mantle, is called delamination.
Plating refers to the reconstruction of a pane or "sheet" of postage stamps printed from a single plate by using individual stamps and overlapping strips and blocks of stamps. Likewise, if a sheet 10 or 20 postal cards is typeset, the variations of the letters or design elements may allow reconstruction or plating of the sheets based on these differences.
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.