What's the difference between photocopier and platen?

Photocopier


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A simple, manual current awareness service at the University of Southern California School of Dentistry, designed to provide the user with photocopied tables of contents from selected journals, is described.
  • (2) The results showed that VCF valued, in order of priority: TWs, University library privileges, faculty parking, photocopying service, clinical faculty awards, use of recreational facilities, and faculty discounts.
  • (3) The subjects of 2015’s most exciting underground publications are a world away from the stapled-together, photocopied, fanzines of yore.
  • (4) Photocopiers emit a very low level of ultraviolet irradiation: this would not cause burns in a normal patient but could possibly do so in someone who is sensitive to ultraviolet light.
  • (5) The total lender's unit cost per request received, including direct labor, materials, fringe benefits, and overhead, was $1.526 for originals mailed postpaid by lender, and $1.534 for photocopies mailed.
  • (6) Thanks to modern technology, photocopying is quick, easy, and inexpensive.
  • (7) The number of articles that came in the form of photocopies was directly proportional to the time interval between the publication and the reprint request.
  • (8) I always check that my planning and marking for the next day are done first, then prepare my resources for photocopying, and finally check minutes, agendas, handouts or presentations needed that day.
  • (9) Weiner, who oversees everything from scripts to ensuring that the photocopier in the corner of the Sterling Cooper office is the right brand for the era, spent the weeks after Mad Men won the Emmy for best drama in a series of meetings with the heads of major studios and networks to consider new projects.
  • (10) Other historians, including Ian Kershaw and Antony Beevor, were more forthcoming, with some examining my photocopies from numerous archives in Europe and the US.
  • (11) It’ll be too late, they’ll already be photocopied.
  • (12) Electrophoretic analyses were documented by photocopying the finished electrophoresis gels.
  • (13) Secret documents were deliberately left on photocopiers, others were thrust into journalists' hands or put on the web.
  • (14) His father worked for the photocopying manufacturer Océ and went into hiding during the wartime Nazi occupation; his mother was born into a colonial family in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).
  • (15) "Even in the third world it's not like this," said Merzuk, 35, who works in a local photocopy shop.
  • (16) His first pictures were torn from newspapers and reproduced on a digital photocopier, which could enlarge them by 400%.
  • (17) If the photocopier is malfunctioning they will sigh heavily and imply that we have somehow sabotaged its workings.
  • (18) Today we both wear specs – neither pair too effective in the darkling light from the stormy windows; he's delighted by the half-memory and takes the photocopy of my photocopy to pore over later.
  • (19) A simple, accurate, and inexpensive method of documenting metatarsus adductus involves taking photocopies of the foot in the weightbearing position.
  • (20) We got to the point where we would get the counter staff to sign our photocopies to prove they were submitted.

Platen


Definition:

  • (n.) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
  • (n.) Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression.
  • (n.) The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also called table.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The incidence of damage immediately after freeze-drying was greater for cells dried at the higher platen temperature and was influenced by the composition of the menstruum in which the cells were dried.
  • (2) These modifications involve the use of a radiused edge on the dimpling tool, a rubber O-ring on the polishing tool, and not rotating the sample platen during polishing.
  • (3) The material was cured in certain thicknesses in the heat platen press and by boiling without porosity.
  • (4) This dependency on cross-sectional area is probably due to friction-induced stress inhomogeneity at the platen-specimen interface.
  • (5) Salmonella typhimurium survived freeze-drying at a platen temperature of 120 F (48.9 C) and also, though to a much lesser degree, at 160 F (82.6 C).
  • (6) The coupling DC amplifier provides a DC offset voltage at all gain settings of the pantograph which is sufficient to reposition the pen of the X-Y plotter in the center of the plotter's platen, regardless of the location of the specimen on the microscope slide.
  • (7) A finite element analysis is used to study a previously unresolved issue of the effects of platen-specimen friction on the response of the unconfined compression test; effects of platen permeability are also determined.
  • (8) This enhancement of material properties at the highest strain rate was due primarily to the restricted viscous flow of marrow through the platen rather than the flow through the pores of the trabecular bone.
  • (9) Trousers-shaped specimens were prepared between two platens.
  • (10) An increase in trabecular orientation toward the loaded platens was observed, and a statistically significant decrease in connectivity was documented.
  • (11) This model utilized an implantable hydraulic device incorporating five loading cylinders and platens in direct contact with an exposed plane of trabecular bone.
  • (12) After freeze-drying for 8 hr at a platen temperature of 49 C and rehydration with a mineral salts medium, survival of the cells was 0.6%.
  • (13) The value of the heat platen press as a time-saving device and its applications in a maxillofacial laboratory were discussed.
  • (14) Control thicknesses of impression material were first formed between the measuring platens of a micrometer, and light transmission values (relative reflections) were measured through these control thicknesses of impression material held against air-abraded, noncast gold alloy.
  • (15) According to Drouzy, the key inspiration for Gertrud, based on a play by Hjalmar Söderberg, was Dreyer's discovery at 73 that Maria von Platen, Gertrud's real-life counterpart, spent the last years of her life in a house only 10 miles from the site of his own conception.
  • (16) A porous platen above the specimens allowed the escape of marrow during testing.
  • (17) In a second experimental condition, a platen-fixed LED matrix fixation target was illuminated 0.91 m vertically above the subject.
  • (18) An investigation was designed and carried out to compare methyl acrylic resin processed by three methods--boiling, in the heat platen press, and a 9 hour, 75 degrees C cure.
  • (19) The modifications to the dimpling and polishing tools allow more control of the geometry of the dimple, while not rotating the sample platen allows a thinner sample to be produced and permits the use of the sample translation micrometers to shift the location of the thinned area during polishing.

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