(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.
Typewriter
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper.
(n.) One who uses such an instrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) Slipstream recounts how, on one writing holiday, they swapped typewriters and wrote a few pages of each other's novels.
(2) Remember this, non-Theater People: if you think Broadway shows are too commercial, too bloated and bedazzled, remember that for every Ring of Fire or Tarzan there is a 90-minute play that takes place in a typewriter factory.
(3) Apart from the novels, plays, film scripts, sitcoms and magazine articles that flowed unceasingly from his vintage Adler typewriter (he hated new technology), he also wrote a twice-weekly newspaper column, beginning in the Daily Mirror in 1970, and from 1988 for the Daily Mail, until the paper announced his retirement last May.
(4) He is not allowed a typewriter or computer, and spends most of his day reading memoirs of those who wrote while incarcerated.
(5) The church panels that inspired the petitions’ design can be seen in a dimmed room at nearby Yirrkala art centre, where it’s rumoured you can also see the typewriter that clacked out the petition in English and Yolngu – another seminal achievement.
(6) Christian Flisek, the SPD's representative on the committee, told Spiegel Online: "This call for mechanical typewriters is making our work sound ridiculous.
(7) The system depends on the preparation of reports on an electric typewriter producing punched paper tape as a byproduct.
(8) By means of this simple system there is an improvement of the information and the typewriting work of medical staff has been reduced.
(9) A few weeks went by before the unthinkable happened: I received a fax from New York with a letter from Salinger himself – densely typed on a manual typewriter with, at the top, the date and the word "Cornish", the town in New Hampshire where he lived his reclusive life.
(10) But judging by the reaction to Sensburg's comments, manual typewriters are unlikely to be widely adopted in German political circles.
(11) This investigation explored the interaction of progressive-part versus whole methods of practice with hemispheric preference for processing information and the impact of each upon high school students' speed and accuracy in beginning typewriting.
(12) He was said to have written his first story, entitled Jim's Adventure, aged eight, the framed first page of which, picked out with two fingers on his father's typewriter, had pride of place in his study.
(13) For example, full pronation may be required for feeding, but only half the range is necessary to operate the keyboard of a computer or typewriter.
(14) We describe four cases of sudden death in adolescents associated with recreational sniffing of typewriter correction fluid occurring during the period 1979 through mid-1984.
(15) I didn't like to write about my own writing, but I was interested in how my children - I have many children, eight children - how they saw their father with his typewriter, an old-fashioned typewriter.
(16) Asked "Are you considering typewriters" by the interviewer on Monday night, the Christian Democrat politican Patrick Sensburg said: "As a matter of fact, we have – and not electronic models either".
(17) Blind people may use reading machines with speech output to become relatively independent in text reading and text preparation using typewriters.
(18) She joined Chatto & Windus when publishers used carbon paper and typewriters and stopped for tea daily.
(19) In a few minutes, he's done and we find ourselves gazing at a TV screen that fills with streams of code, ASCII typewriter-style stuff like I used to see in my short year of computer science lessons (1982-83).
(20) take into consideration the utilisation of the Olivetti calculator system including the following hardware: P 652 basic unit microcomputer; paper tape reader LN 20; Editor 4 ST typewriter, for RIA evaluation.