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Definition of Tinfoil
1. Noun. Foil made of tin or an alloy of tin and lead.
Definition of Tinfoil
1. Noun. a thin, pliable sheet of tin or an alloy of tin and lead, used as a protective wrapping ¹
2. Noun. (''as a misnomer'') aluminium foil ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tinfoil
1. a thin metal sheeting [n -S]
Medical Definition of Tinfoil
1. 1. Tin rolled into extremely thin sheets. 2. A base metal foil used as a separating material, as between the cast and denture base material during flasking and curing procedures. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tinfoil
Literary usage of Tinfoil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Mechanic and World of Science (1887)
"In the former case, as many as 150 alternations of tinfoil will be needed ...
Take 3T sheet of good tinfoil Tin. by (Jin., with an equa number of strips ..."
2. Business Ownership Organization by Archibald Herbert Stockder (1922)
"Conley Foil Company — manufacturers of tinfoil, an essential for packing tobacco
... By agree- tinfoil ment the Conley Foil Company was incor- business. ..."
3. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress edited by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1847)
"such as printers' composition or blanket, and while the tinfoil ... or varnish ;'
as soon as the ink, color, or varnish, is sufficiently dry, the tinfoil is ..."
4. The Emporium of Arts and Sciences by John Redman Coxe (1814)
"Making of tinfoil. The tin is melted into ingots, and then hammered on a smooth
iron plate. ... Cut the tinfoil a little larger than the glass every way, ..."
5. A Physical Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Edward Henry Gordon (1891)
"On the needles which pass through the tinfoil are shoulders which come down tight
on the tinfoil so as to make good contact. For these curves two cells of ..."
6. A Physical Treatise on Eletricity and Magnetism by James Edward Henry Gordon (1880)
"By placing a sheet of paper underneath the tinfoil disc, the forms of equipo-
tential curves ... For illustration in lectures, the sheet of tinfoil may be ..."
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