Meaning of platformful | Babel Free

Definitions

The amount that is on a platform.

Examples

“They had been a thousand feet above Coombe and Malden station; fifty seconds after they whizzed, at a frightful pace, not eighty feet above the East Putney station, on the Metropolitan District line, to the screaming astonishment of a platformful of people.”

“Using a platformful of equipment specially built for his use by the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Dr. Perrine set up long-line circuits, used transmitted vibrations of tuning forks to demonstrate pitch and frequency characteristics, and illustrated .how various frequency oscillations make music, words, and pure sounds.”

“Though the scramble of Thomians alighted a platformful of clerks was waiting to got on, so I didn't even try for a seat.”

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