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noun

Plating 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.

verb

Plate v. t. (past & past part. plated; pres. part. 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; to arm with metal for defense. "Thus plated in habiliments of war."

To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.

To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae.

To calender; as, to plate paper.

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Etymology of 'Plating'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Plating" Quotes from Famous Books

... a couple of micromicrons thick, but it would stop anything. It was collapsed matter, the electron shells of the atoms collapsed upon the nuclei, the atoms in actual contact. That plating made eighth-inch sheet steel as heavy as twelve-inch armor plate, and in texture and shielding properties, lead was ...

— The Cosmic Computer • Henry Beam Piper

... gives is a poor affair at best. It is shallow; a very thin plating over a depth of restlessness, like some skin of turf on a volcano, where a foot below the surface sulphurous fumes roll, and hellish turbulence seethes. That is the kind of rest that ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren

... "but if they discover us, they are likely to dump a few barge loads of pig iron or something down on us and crush our steel plating." ...

— The Boy Allies Under Two Flags • Ensign Robert L. Drake

... 204. [specific coverings: list] veneer, facing; overlay; plate, silver plate, gold plate, copper plate; engobe[obs3]; ormolu; Sheffield plate; pavement; coating, paint; varnish &c. (resin) 356a; plating, barrel plating, anointing &c. v.; enamel; epitaxial deposition[Engin], vapor deposition; ground, whitewash, plaster, spackel, stucco, compo; cerement; ointment &c. (grease) 356. V. cover; superpose, superimpose; overlay, overspread; wrap ...

— Roget's Thesaurus

... was only a couple of micromicrons thick, but it would stop anything. It was collapsed matter, the electron shells of the atoms collapsed upon the nuclei, the atoms in actual contact. That plating made eighth-inch sheet steel as heavy as twelve-inch armor plate, and in texture and shielding properties, lead was like sponge ...

— The Cosmic Computer • Henry Beam Piper

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