Meaning of egg-crate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To put into egg crates.
2. To compartmentalize; to separate into isolated or self-contained groups, containers, or modules.
3. To provide with a texture that is typical of an egg carton: either a lattice or having a pattern of regular depressions.
4. To attach two surfaces together using multiple points of attachment in a lattice pattern, often in order to provide strength while minimizing weight.
5. To equip with an egg crate.
6. To display multiple images on a single screen separated by sharp edges.

Examples

“We have⟳ found that with adequate internal egg-crating, no killing agent is needed, and providing that the light⟳ is set⟳ to go out about dawn no damage⟳ due to restlessness is caused to the moths inside.”

“Parts that are egg-crated are placed in individual cells made of cardboard sheets, like⟳ egg packaging or Christmas ornament packaging.”

“I'm not talking about enough templates to egg-crate the car.”

“When we examine⟳ model⟳ cyberschools, however, we find⟳ that despite their innovations in technology and space utilization, they still rely⟳ on age-grading, (virtual) egg-crating, predetermined curriculum, and standardized tests.”

“This extension allows you to egg-crate any geometry.”

“The hulls are four-compartment vessels with thwartships framing, longitudinally braced, with continuous engineroom girders, "egg-crated" into transverse floors.”

“The inner bottom of the ship is "egg-crated" with transverse floors at every frame, and is enormously strong.”

“While most builders assemble a bottom-support system using plywood stringers and floors egg-crated together, then glassed into the hull, Thunderbird has switched to a molded-fiberglass grid for most of its FASTECH hulls.”

“Egg-crating can also be used to support⟳ metal molds where the thickness of the metal has been reduced to improve⟳ weight savings and costs.”

“But three boards cannot be “egg-crated” together without cutting some conductors, thereby necessitating pigtail or wire bond connections.”

“Front- and backlights are egg-crated Chimera Lightbanks.”

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