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Definition of Two-ply
1. Adjective. Having a thickness made up of two layers or strands.
Definition of Two-ply
1. Adjective. Consisting of two layers or two strands. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: textile fabrics) Consisting of two webs woven into one another. ¹
3. Adjective. (context: manufactured articles, linen) Consisting of two thicknesses. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Two-ply
Literary usage of Two-ply
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"Cover with two courses of matched lumber, with two-ply of damp-proof paper between.
Cover the whole with galvanized iron, with soldered seams, ..."
2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"... three, or 'more strands twisted together at one operation, and they are
distinguished from one another by the terms two-ply, three-ply, and so on, ..."
3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1873)
"The other varieties of carpets in use, as the Kidderminster or two-ply, called
in this country the ingrain, the three-ply, the Venetian, Brussels, ..."
4. Textbook of Naval Aeronautics by Henry Woodhouse (1917)
"two-ply bulkheads support the float attachments, and the principal ... The bottom
is two-ply spruce, the inner ply running athwartships and the outer ply ..."
5. Text-book of the Materials of Engineering by Herbert Fisher Moore, Harrison Frederick Gonnerman (1920)
"Single ply belting is made from one thickness of leather, two-ply belting from
... Single ply leather belting is about 0.23 inches thick and two-ply leather ..."
6. Textbook of the Materials of Engineering by Herbert Fisher Moore, Harrison Frederick Gonnerman (1922)
"Single ply belting is made from one thickness of leather, two-ply belting from
... Single ply leather belting is about 0.23 inches thick and two-ply leather ..."
7. Peruvian Fabrics by Morris De Camp Crawford (1916)
"The finest plain weave comes from Paraiso, count 112 two-ply warp by 48 ...
Its count is 104 two-ply dyed cotton warp and 34 two-ply undyed cotton weft. ..."
8. One Hundred Years' Progress of the United States ...: With an Appendix by Charles Louis Flint, Charles Francis McCay, John C. Merriam, Thomas Prentice Kettell, Linus Pierpont Brockett (1870)
"The pattern in this does not appear in opposite colors, as in the two-ply.
This fabric was long thought not adapted to power looms, but in 1839, ..."
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