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Definition of Armor plating
1. Noun. Specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire.
Specialized synonyms: Backplate, Beaver, Brassard, Aegis, Breastplate, Egis, Cannon, Chamfron, Chanfron, Front-stall, Frontstall, Testiere, Cubitiere, Cuisse, Epauliere, Fauld, Gorget, Greave, Jambeau, Helmet, Knee Piece, Nosepiece, Palette, Pallette, Roundel, Skirt Of Tasses, Sabaton, Solleret, Tasse, Tasset, Tuille, Visor, Vizor
Generic synonyms: Plate, Scale, Shell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Armor Plating
Literary usage of Armor plating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1866)
"Displacement, 5525 tons; 900 horse power ; mean draught, S5)i feet ; length of
load line, 255 feet; breadth, 5B feet : wooden hull;4)í Inch armor plating ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1866)
"Displacement, 1229 tons ; 150 horse pow- rr ; mean draught, 9M feet ; length of
load Une, 130 feet; breadth, 51 feet; iron hull, ВД inch armor plating. ..."
3. A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer: Comprising Ancient and Modern Military by Thomas Wilhelm (1881)
"... enormous resistance of steel to penetration it was unfit for armor plating,—the
damage from the impact of shot not being localized ns in wrought iron. ..."
4. Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa by Joseph H. Alexander (1996)
"... armor plating, and their overaged power plants. There was a psychological
factor at work as well. "Red Mike" Edson had criticized the LVT crews for ..."
5. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1878)
"It may be added that the whole question of armor-plating is (1878) ... The sides
of the citadel consist of an outer thickness of 12-inch armor-plating, ..."
6. Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum by Charles Ammi Cutter, Boston Athenaeum (1874)
"Armor-plating. KING, \VR Report on experimental and theoretical investigations
relative to materials for defensive armor. Wash., 1 STO. 4". ..."
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