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Definition of Plywood
1. Noun. A laminate made of thin layers of wood.
Definition of Plywood
1. Noun. Construction material supplied in sheets, and made of three or more layers of wood veneer glued together, laid up with alternating layers having their grain perpendicular to each other. ¹
2. Noun. A specific grade or type of this construction material. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plywood
1. a building material [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plywood
Literary usage of Plywood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the National Research Council by National Research Council (U.S.) (1921)
"Warping tests of plywood. Working plan to be prepared, ... Many tests have been
made on built-up plywood forms such as airplane engine bearers, wing ribs, ..."
2. Bulletin of the National Research Council by National Research Council (U.S.) (1921)
"Warping tests of plywood. Working plan to be prepared, ... Many tests have been
made on built-up plywood forms such as airplane engine bearers, wing ribs, ..."
3. Wooden Box and Crate Construction by Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.) (1921)
"Use of plywood in Packing Boxes—The properties of veneer or thin lumber in ...
The product is known as "plywood," and has the advantage of producing a ..."
4. Textbook of Applied Aeronautic Engineering by Henry Woodhouse (1920)
"plywood Construction One of Most Important Developments plywood construction ...
plywood permits, for instance, the making of the fuselage of an aeroplane ..."
5. The Principles of Automobile Body Design: Covering the Fundamentals of Open by Kingston Forbes (1922)
"Tests made at the Forest Products Laboratory have shown that the commonly-used
plywood species may be divided into the following groups, all woods in any ..."
6. Wooden Box and Crate Construction by Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.) (1921)
"Use of plywood in Packing Boxes—The properties of veneer or thin lumber in ...
The product is known as "plywood," and has the advantage of producing a ..."
7. Textbook of Applied Aeronautic Engineering by Henry Woodhouse (1920)
"plywood Construction One of Most Important Developments plywood construction ...
plywood permits, for instance, the making of the fuselage of an aeroplane ..."
8. The Principles of Automobile Body Design: Covering the Fundamentals of Open by Kingston Forbes (1922)
"Tests made at the Forest Products Laboratory have shown that the commonly-used
plywood species may be divided into the following groups, all woods in any ..."
9. Text-book of the Materials of Engineering by Herbert Fisher Moore, Harrison Frederick Gonnerman (1920)
"Veneer, plywood.—Owing to the increasing cost of hard wood there has been developed
the use of boards of soft wood with very thin sheets of hard wood, ..."
10. North American Forest Research: Investigative Projects in Forestry and by Earle Hart Clapp (1920)
"Warping tests of plywood. Working plan to be prepared, ... Many tests have been
made on built-up plywood forms such as airplane engine bearers, wing ribs, ..."
11. Text-book of the Materials of Engineering by Herbert Fisher Moore, Harrison Frederick Gonnerman (1920)
"Veneer, plywood.—Owing to the increasing cost of hard wood there has been developed
the use of boards of soft wood with very thin sheets of hard wood, ..."
12. North American Forest Research: Investigative Projects in Forestry and by Earle Hart Clapp (1920)
"Warping tests of plywood. Working plan to be prepared, ... Many tests have been
made on built-up plywood forms such as airplane engine bearers, wing ribs, ..."