2. Verb. (third-person singular of calender) ¹
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Definition of Calenders
1. calender [v] - See also: calender
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calenders
Literary usage of Calenders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... U in a half-dried state, over three more cylinders and the calenders V.
These are heavy iron rollers heated by steam internally and polished externally. ..."
2. Handbook of Mechanical and Electrical Cost Data: Giving Shipping Weights by Halbert Powers Gillette, Richard Turner Dana (1918)
"Application of Electric Drive to Paper calenders Is described at length by EC
... It has been found from many tests and observations that calenders are run ..."
3. Controllers for Electric Motors: A Treatise on the Modern Industrial by Henry Duvall James (1919)
"... PRESSES AND RUBBER calenders CONTROL equipment providing a slow operating
speed of about one-twentieth of the normal speed is used in setting L_ FIG. ..."
4. A Bibliography of the War Cripple by Douglas Crawford McMurtrie, Institute for the Crippled and Disabled (1918)
"Preparing Cloth for calenders and Spreaders In the manufacture of footwear,
automobile tires, and many other rubber goods, a large amount of cloth is ..."
5. Notes on the Manufacture of Wood Pulp and Wood-pulp Papers by James Dunbar (1894)
"and friction-calenders which cannot be surpassed ; and, from those which I have
seen and heard of made by them, little can be desired beyond their ..."
6. Employment Opportunities for Handicapped Men in the Coppersmithing Trade by Bert Jasper Morris (1918)
"Preparing Cloth for calenders and Spreaders In the manufacture of footwear,
automobile tires, and many other rubber goods, a large amount of cloth is ..."