What's the difference between platen and table?

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.

Table


Definition:

  • (n.) A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.
  • (n.) A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet
  • (n.) a memorandum book.
  • (n.) Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced.
  • (n.) Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme; a schedule.
  • (n.) A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents.
  • (n.) A list of substances and their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.
  • (n.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc.
  • (n.) The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand.
  • (n.) An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working.
  • (n.) Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table.
  • (n.) The company assembled round a table.
  • (n.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploe, in the walls of the cranium.
  • (n.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table.
  • (n.) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.
  • (n.) One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table.
  • (n.) The games of backgammon and of draughts.
  • (n.) A circular plate of crown glass.
  • (n.) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.
  • (n.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also perspective plane.
  • (n.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened.
  • (v. t.) To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.
  • (v. t.) To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.
  • (v. t.) To supply with food; to feed.
  • (v. t.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
  • (v. t.) To lay or place on a table, as money.
  • (v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely.
  • (v. t.) To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.
  • (v. t.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
  • (v. i.) To live at the table of another; to board; to eat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
  • (2) As far as acrophase table is concerned for all enzymes and fractions the acrophase occurred during the night.
  • (3) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
  • (4) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
  • (5) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
  • (6) One is that the issue of whether the World Cup should go ahead in Russia and Qatar still firmly remains on the table.
  • (7) But what about phenomena such as table tipping and Ouija boards?
  • (8) In the univariate life-table analysis, recurrence-free survival was significantly related to age, pTNM category, tumour size, presence of certain growth patterns, tumour necrosis, tumour infiltration in surrounding thyroid tissue and thyroid gland capsule, lymph node metastases, presence of extra-nodal tumour growth and number of positive lymph nodes, whereas only tumour diameter, thyroid gland capsular infiltration and presence of extra-nodal tumour growth remained as significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis.
  • (9) Extrapolation of gestational age from early crown-rump lengths (CRLs) has been difficult because previously established tables of CRL versus gestational age have contained few measurements at less than seven to eight weeks from the first day of the last menses.
  • (10) Table I shows the effect of increasing concentrations of propolis in tryptose-agar (TA).
  • (11) The first one is a region with iodine insufficiency; the second one is a region where the people use table salt in excess.
  • (12) These findings suggest that development of standard ECG tables in which SMR and sex have been taken into account might enhance interpretation during adolescence.
  • (13) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
  • (14) A table of the lengths of statistically significant intervals for various sampling interval lengths, numbers of subjects, and autocorrelation parameters is presented.
  • (15) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
  • (16) The results are summarized in Table I, indicating that the ratio of formation of the cis product (2) increases as a solvent becomes more polar.
  • (17) The properties of these tumour-associated "antigens" in the membrane of rat sarcomata are summarized below: [Table: see text]
  • (18) The inner table of the skull over the lesion was eroded.
  • (19) She said a referendum was off the table for this general election but, pressed on whether it would be in the SNP manifesto for 2016, she responded: “We will write that manifesto when we get there.
  • (20) The increase of the spleen weight after infection was significantly smaller in the immunized groups (Table 2).