platformful

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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