egg-crate

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1. To put into egg crates.
2. To compartmentalize; to separate into isolated or self-contained groups, containers, or modules.

   I'm not talking about enough templates to egg-crate the car.

   2000 June, “Aero Matching”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 177, number 6, page 106

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   We have found that with adequate internal egg-crating, no killing agent is needed, and providing that the light is set to go out about dawn no damage due to restlessness is caused to the moths inside.

   1957, James William Tutt, The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation

   Parts that are egg-crated are placed in individual cells made of cardboard sheets, like egg packaging or Christmas ornament packaging.

   1994, Manufacturing Review, page 230

   When we examine model cyberschools, however, we find that despite their innovations in technology and space utilization, they still rely on age-grading, (virtual) egg-crating, predetermined curriculum, and standardized tests.

   2015, Leonard J. Waks, Education 2.0, →ISBN

3. To provide with a texture that is typical of an egg carton: either a lattice or having a pattern of regular depressions.

   This extension allows you to egg-crate any geometry.

   2015, Alexander Schreyer, Architectural Design with SketchUp, →ISBN, page 137

4. To attach two surfaces together using multiple points of attachment in a lattice pattern, often in order to provide strength while minimizing weight.

   The inner bottom of the ship is "egg-crated" with transverse floors at every frame, and is enormously strong.

   1959, Discovery: A Magazine of Scientific Progress - Volume 20, page 467

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   The hulls are four-compartment vessels with thwartships framing, longitudinally braced, with continuous engineroom girders, "egg-crated" into transverse floors.

   1950, Pacific Fisherman - Volume 48, page 49

   While most builders assemble a bottom-support system using plywood stringers and floors egg-crated together, then glassed into the hull, Thunderbird has switched to a molded-fiberglass grid for most of its FASTECH hulls.

   1998 September, Mike Smith, “Officer Material: What it Takes to Make the Grade”, in Boating, volume 71, number 9, page 99

   Egg-crating can also be used to support metal molds where the thickness of the metal has been reduced to improve weight savings and costs.

   2006, A. Brent Strong, Plastics: Materials and Processing, →ISBN, page 712

   But three boards cannot be “egg-crated” together without cutting some conductors, thereby necessitating pigtail or wire bond connections.

   118, Robert C. Hansen, Robert E. Collin, Small Antenna Handbook, →ISBN, page 2011

5. lightingTo equip with an egg crate.

   Front- and backlights are egg-crated Chimera Lightbanks.

   2007, American Cinematographer - Volume 88, Issues 1-5, page 67

6. To display multiple images on a single screen separated by sharp edges.

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1. alternativelightingAlternative form of egg crate.

   Pa strings the lights while Janet takes the ornaments one by one from the cardboard egg-crates.

   2014, Kent Otto Stever, Kinder, Gentler Ways: Reflections of a River Town Boy, →ISBN

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   Often used with the studio is the egg-crate, which minimizes side spill and does make the beam a bit more controllable.

   2013, Blain Brown, Cinematography: Theory and Practice, →ISBN, page 8-22

   There was no fuel cladding, no zirconium egg-crates holding the fuel in a rigid matrix, no steam in the reactor vessel to float away with fission products into the atmosphere, and, of course, there was no danger of the fuel melting.

   2014, James Mahaffey, Atomic Accidents, →ISBN

   New virtual learning environments (VLEs) such as Eluminate (now Blackboard Collaborate) are virtual egg-crates.

   2015, Leonard J. Waks, Education 2.0, →ISBN