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Definition of Plate glass

1. Noun. Glass formed into large thin sheets.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plate Glass

Literary usage of Plate glass

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In the manufacture of polished plate-glass the materials are selected with ... Plate-glass is made in very large sizes, up to 25.feet in length and 12 to 14 ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In the manufacture of polished plate-glass the materials are selected with ... Plate-glass is made in very large sizes, up to 25 feet in length and 12 to 14 ..."

3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"plate glass. A compound of white sand, sodium carbonate, lime, and either alumina or manganese peroxide, together with a quantity— almost equal to the mass ..."

4. The Microscope: And Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1856)
"plate glass and ... size in pieces of plate-glass of the requisite thickness, and by attaching these with marine glue to glass slides (Fig. G4). ..."

5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"A pair of light bars is added, running from the top of the plate-glass frame to a ... A ground-glass frame is added back of the plate-glass, which latter is ..."

6. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"This entire process must, obviously, be applied in turn to each of the two surfaces of the slab of glass. Plate-glass is manufactured in this manner in ..."

7. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1859)
"Struthers & Co., on their appeal from your assessment of duty on an article described as "fluted plate glass,''ut the rate of 24 per cent, ..."

8. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Charles D. Demond (1905)
"plate glass is cast on a large iron plate or " casting table," made up of thick, narrow segments of cast iron, bolted together and planed on top. ..."

9. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In the manufacture of polished plate-glass the materials are selected with ... Plate-glass is made in very large sizes, up to 25.feet in length and 12 to 14 ..."

10. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In the manufacture of polished plate-glass the materials are selected with ... Plate-glass is made in very large sizes, up to 25 feet in length and 12 to 14 ..."

11. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"plate glass. A compound of white sand, sodium carbonate, lime, and either alumina or manganese peroxide, together with a quantity— almost equal to the mass ..."

12. The Microscope: And Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1856)
"plate glass and ... size in pieces of plate-glass of the requisite thickness, and by attaching these with marine glue to glass slides (Fig. G4). ..."

13. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"A pair of light bars is added, running from the top of the plate-glass frame to a ... A ground-glass frame is added back of the plate-glass, which latter is ..."

14. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"This entire process must, obviously, be applied in turn to each of the two surfaces of the slab of glass. Plate-glass is manufactured in this manner in ..."

15. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1859)
"Struthers & Co., on their appeal from your assessment of duty on an article described as "fluted plate glass,''ut the rate of 24 per cent, ..."

16. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Charles D. Demond (1905)
"plate glass is cast on a large iron plate or " casting table," made up of thick, narrow segments of cast iron, bolted together and planed on top. ..."

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