plating

What it means

1. hobbiesAn act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet.
2. A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.
3. A coating or defensive armour of metal plates.

   The back plating looks vulnerable, light that sucker up!

   2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Marcus Stacker (Pete Stacker), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark

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   Her fragility and vulnerability lie in the fact that her framework is overlaid with a relatively thin skin of plating, an inch or so in thickness, which, while amply strong to resist the inward pressure of the water, the impact of the seas, and the tensile and compressive stresses due to the motion of the ship in a seaway, etc., is readily fractured by the blow of a collision.

   1912, J. Bernard Walker, An Unsinkable Titanic, page 105

In a sentence

Her fragility and vulnerability lie in the fact that her framework is overlaid with a relatively thin skin of plating, an inch or so in thickness, which, while amply strong to resist the inward pressure of the water, the impact of the seas, and the tensile and compressive stresses due to the motion of the ship in a seaway, etc., is readily fractured by the blow of a collision.

1912, J. Bernard Walker, An Unsinkable Titanic, page 105

Where it comes from

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