Meaning of Plating | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. An act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet.
3. A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.
4. A coating or defensive armour of metal plates.
5. The presentation of food that is ready to be served.

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Examples

“Her fragility and vulnerability lie⟳ in the fact that her framework is overlaid with a relatively thin skin of plating, an inch or so in thickness, which, while amply strong to resist⟳ the inward pressure of the water, the impact of the seas, and the tensile and compressive stresses due to the motion of the ship in a seaway, etc., is readily fractured by the blow⟳ of a collision.”

“The back plating looks vulnerable, light⟳ that sucker up!”

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