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Definition of Calendering
1. calender [v] - See also: calender
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calendering
Literary usage of Calendering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures by George Savage White (1836)
"BLEACHING AND calendering.* After the manufacture of the cloth is complete, there
is the important process of bleaching to be undergone by all cotton goods; ..."
2. The Art of Paper-making: A Practical Handbook of the Manufacture of Paper by Watt, Alexander (1890)
"To impart a higher gloss, or, as it is technically termed " glaze," to paper
after it leaves the machine, it has to be subjected to further calendering, ..."
3. Textiles by Paul Henry Nystrom (1916)
"calendering calendering is accomplished by passing the cloth between large rolls,
from two to six, under heavy pressure. In the rolls the dressing is ..."
4. Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1837)
"Besides the process of making cloth, that of smoothing, or calendering, is
represented in the paintings; which appears to have been done by means of wooden ..."
5. Applications of the Science of Mechanics to Practical Purposes by James Renwick (1842)
"The surface is then rendered smooth by calendering, which is an operation similar
to that of mangling. A box containing heavy weights may be rolled over the ..."
6. Modern Industrial Progress by Charles Henry Cochrane (1904)
"A little later View in Rubber Works, showing calendering Machine. the railways
became large customers, using it for packing and for hose-pipe. ..."
7. The Useful Arts Employed in the Production of Clothing (1851)
"The starched cloth is hung up in a heated room to dry; and is then ready for
calendering, or imparting a smoothness and gloss to ..."
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