rabat

plural rabats

1. countableuncountableA polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.
2. countableA piece of fabric fitted to the collar covering the shirt-front worn by Catholic and Anglican clergy.
3. countableThe clerical linen collar itself.

present singular third person rabats · participle present rabatting · participle past rabatted · past rabatted

1. To rotate a plane of projection.

   The following rule should be noted: In solving the problem of the oblique plane, convert the oblique plane into an inclined plane, and rabat it about its H.T.

   2015, Edmund George Warland, Modern Practical Masonry, →ISBN, page 169

   2 more examples

   For example, we would tend to say that qa is rabatted (rotated) around the axis qd, but notice that conventional rabatment cannot explain the position of plane topl, since it should be rabatted around the line ix in the corporea, and instead it has been rotated around a vertical line passing through d.

   1996, James Elkins, The Poetics of Perspective, →ISBN, page 112

   Generally the true form of the diagonal is drawn on the half-breadth plan, being obtained by rabatting the plane containing the diagonal about the line through m into the horizontal plane.

   2009, John Harvard Biles, The Design and Construction of Ships, →ISBN

1. The capital city of Morocco, and capital city of the region of Rabat-Sale-Kenitra, Morocco.
2. metonymicallyThe Moroccan government.

1. A town in the Western Region, Malta
2. Former name of Victoria: a town and local council, the capital of the Gozo Region, Malta