Meaning of Ply | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A layer of material.
   countable, uncountable
2. A bent; a direction.
3. A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
   countable, uncountable
4. Clipping of plywood.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable, uncountable
5. In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
   countable, uncountable
6. A condition, a state.
   Scotland, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“two-ply toilet paper”

“It is possible to have a very well load balanced partition but with such a high ply that its slowest piece is slower than a not-so-well balanced partition with less ply.”

“The designer critic's staff would come in with, for example, loads of three-ply cashmere. The students weren't even selecting their own fabrics.”

“To make the hail rod a rope of straw is the first thing necessary; it must be made of ripe wheat straw, soaked and twisted, plaited with three strand and then with four ply, making twelve strand to the rope.”

“The compartment ceiling panels are of plastic material backed with ply or hardboard panels.”

“The Standards describe the quality of timber or ply, moisture content, amount of acceptable sapwood, freedom from decay and insect attack, limitation of checks and splits and treatment of resin staining, and the way plugging may be employed to mask defects in ply faces.”

“Teak-faced ply is about three times the price of any other, so if you need to economise, anything other than teak would be a good choice! Similarly, marine ply is substantially more expensive than exterior ply, so it may be preferable to go with the latter option.”

“He proposed to build Deep Purple, a super-computer capable of 24-ply look-ahead for chess.”

“Chinook uses an iterative, alpha-beta search with transposition tables and the history heuristic[…]. Under tournament conditions (thirty moves an hour), the program searches to an average minimum depth of nineteen ply (one ply is one move by one player). The search uses selective deepening to extend lines that are tactically or positionally interesting. Consequently, major lines of play are often searched many plies deeper. It is not uncommon for the program to produce analyses that are thirty-ply deep or more.”

“Two principal search strategies were (correctly) predicted: Type-A programs that apply "brute force" inspection of every possible position over a fixed number of plys; and Type-B programs that prune potential moves according to some selection function and then examine the significant sets over as many plys as practical and only at those positions reflecting a degree of stability.”

“You may be ſure, in the ply I was now taking, I had no objection to the propoſal, and was rather a tiptoe for its accompliſhment.”

Fanny Hill

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