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• eggcrate
• egg-crate
• egg-crating
• egg crating

名詞

egg crate (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 egg crates)

1. (countable) A crate used for transporting eggs.
   • 2013, Carleton Opgaard, From Country School to College President, →ISBN, page 15:

     I can recall many an evening sitting in the store with the store manager and perhaps also with the wife of a farmer until midnight when the saloon closed, waiting for the men to stop by for their cream cans, egg crates and wives.

2. (countable) An egg carton; A specialized container for eggs which has multiple indentations for holding individual eggs.
   • 2009, Robert Wemischner, The Dessert Architect, →ISBN, page 275:

     Place the plaque of conical molds, pointed side down, onto clean, empty, cardboard egg crates to support the molds so that they stand perfectly vertical.

3. (countable, lighting) A device for restricting the spread of light that fits into the softbox of a diffuser panel.
   • 2012, Kris Malkiewicz, Film Lighting, →ISBN:

     Happily this situation can be helped to a great extent by the use of grids called egg crates, which prevent the light from spreading too broadly.

   • 2013, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, →ISBN:

     Fabric grids or egg crates, such as those made by Lighttools, work much the same way for different sizes of softboxes. These egg crates restrict the direction of the light and how much it spreads across the entire surface of the softbox or subject.

   • 2013, Christian Hough, Studio Photography and Lighting: Art and Techniques, →ISBN, page 1-47:

     Egg crates are for use with softboxes. They fit into the front of the softbox over the diffuser panel. Their job is similar to that of the honeycomb grid, in that they are there to help restrict the spread of the light, giving you more directional control and less spill, whilst still maintaining a soft light.

4. (countable, education) A self-contained class that has no collaboration or interaction with any other class, and which is the sole responsibility of a single teacher.
   • 1976, Richard D. Fish & Bradley M. Loomer, Elementary Open-space Schools:

     Classrooms became larger, but the egg crate design was maintained.

   • 2009, Identifying the Needs of Beginning Elementary School, →ISBN, page 1:

     Much like teachers are sometimes described as working in their separate little egg crates, school administrators can also be very isolated from one another.

   • 2003, Gail Bush, The School Buddy System: The Practice of Collaboration, →ISBN, page 20:

     Lortie coined the phrase "egg crate school," which refers to a type of organization wherein "each teacher was assigned specific areas of responsibility and was expected to teach students the stipulated knowledge and skills without assistance from others."

   • 2013, William Powell & Ochan Kusuma-Powell, Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Teacher, →ISBN, page 152:

     Egg crates are a much less satisfactory model for schools.

5. (countable, uncountable) A foam pad with multiple indentations giving it a texture similar to that of an egg carton.
   • 2012, Seth B. Goldsmith, Understanding Health Care Management, →ISBN, page 87:

     Typically, egg crates are covered with waterproof pads and then sheets.

   • 2012, Joshua Bonilla, Samantha Ondyak, & Olivia Smith, Sky of Dust: The Last Weapon, →ISBN, page 10:

     We were able to find some foam egg crates that would make her a bit more comfortable.

   • 2014, Gene Shirley Richey, Dancing My Way Through Hell!, →ISBN, page 80:

     This suite left a lasting impression on me due to the egg crates (foam mattresses) on the beds.

6. (countable) A surface or insert that has regularly spaced holes or indentations.
   • 2005, Ken A. Priebe, Home Recording Studio: Build It Like the Pros, →ISBN, page 282:

     As you can see from the test reports, in the lower frequency ranges in particular, egg crates offer little value for absorption.

   • 2012, Jay Rose, Audio Postproduction for Film and Video, →ISBN:

     Ask most people what soundproofing is and they'll describe foam tiles, egg crates, or other treatments on the walls.

   • 2015, Michael Ermann, Architectural Acoustics Illustrated, →ISBN, page 236:

     In lieu of volume extractors that protrude into the main duct airflow, use flow straighteners (honeycomb grids または “egg crates”) in the necks of short-length take-offs that lead directly to terminal devices.

7. A grid-like support structure or scaffolding.
8. (countable) A style of open roof that consists of horizontal supports in a grid pattern.
   • 2013, Mark DeKay & G. Z. Brown, Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies, →ISBN, page 248:

     Exterior shading devices can be either horizontal, vertical, or a combination of horizontal and vertical called “egg crates.”

動詞

egg crate (三人称単数 現在形 egg crates, 現在分詞 egg crating, 過去形および過去分詞形 egg crated)

1. Alternative form of egg-crate
   • 1954 October, Wayne C. Leckey, “Modernize Your Home With Translucent Panels -- A New Woven-Glass Building Material”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 102, number 4, page 184:

     Photos on opposite page show how material is applied to "egg crate" framework in making this installation

   • 1964, Nuclear Engineering - Volume 9, page 277:

     The hull is built on a conventional transverse framing system except for the inner bottom which is "egg crated" below the reactor compartment, located amidships between two upright partitions made of heavy steel.

   • 1996, Mary E. Gardiner, Parent-School Collaboration, →ISBN, page 66:

     And schools, in line with their management practices, have tended to be “egg crated” into separate classes, grade levels, tracks, and departments (Page 1990).

動詞

egg-crate (三人称単数 現在形 egg-crates, 現在分詞 egg-crating, 過去形および過去分詞形 egg-crated)

1. To put into egg crates.
2. To compartmentalize; to separate into isolated or self-contained groups, containers, or modules.
   • 1957, James William Tutt, The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation:

     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.

   • 1994, Manufacturing Review, page 230:

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

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

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

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

     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.

3. To provide with a texture that is typical of an egg carton: either a lattice or having a pattern of regular depressions.
   • 2015, Alexander Schreyer, Architectural Design with SketchUp, →ISBN, page 137:

     This extension allows you to egg-crate any geometry.

4. To attach two surfaces together using multiple points of attachment in a lattice pattern, often in order to provide strength while minimizing weight.
   • 1950, Pacific Fisherman - Volume 48, page 49:

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

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

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

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

     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.

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

     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.

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

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

5. (lighting) To equip with an egg crate.
   • 2007, American Cinematographer - Volume 88, Issues 1-5, page 67:

     Front- and backlights are egg-crated Chimera Lightbanks.

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

名詞

egg-crate (複数形 egg-crates)

1. (lighting) Alternative form of egg crate
   • 2013, Blain Brown, Cinematography: Theory and Practice, →ISBN, page 8-22:

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

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

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

   • 2014, James Mahaffey, Atomic Accidents, →ISBN:

     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.

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

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

名詞

eggcrate (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 eggcrates)

1. Alternative form of egg crate
   1. A crate for eggs.
      • 2012, Robert Shannon, Applied Optics and Optical Engineering - Volume 7, ISBN 0323154158, page 110:

        The eggcrate fused silica lightweight mirror structure is assembled from machined fused silica parts and consists usually Of two circular plates between which is fitted a core Structure of slotted, interlocking ribs (similar to the dividers in old fashioned eggcrates).

   2. A self-contained class
      • 1962, Frontiers of Science Foundation of Oklahoma, Tomorrow's teaching:

        Instead of having a nice modular eggcrate, we now want to build an immodular eggcrate. Deliberately we want to impose upon future teachers, not the nice simple eggcrate, but a more complicated one.

   3. A foam pad
      • 1996, The Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing:

        Mean Skin Assessment Scale scores of patients in control, hydrocolloid dressing and eggcrate foam groups Group Mean score in treatment period

   4. A textured surface or insert.
      • 2011, David Lee Smith, Environmental Issues for Architecture, ISBN 0470644354:

        Although eggcrate louvers can effectively cut off the view of bright lamps, the grid itself can become rather bright, especially when it is white.

      • 1948, Electrical Consultant - Volume 54, page 26:

        The eggcrate is recessed in a suspended plaster ceiling and extends almost the full length of the 70 foot long store, giving the illusion of a floating ceiling.

      • 2012, Robert Shannon, Applied Optics and Optical Engineering - Volume 7, ISBN 0323154158, page 110:

        The eggcrate fused silica lightweight mirror structure is assembled from machined fused silica parts and consists usually Of two circular plates between which is fitted a core Structure of slotted, interlocking ribs (similar to the dividers in old fashioned eggcrates).

   5. A style of roof
      • 1964, Sunset, How to build patio roofs, page 55:

        An eggcrate shelter, which is open to the sky but substantial enough to give the feeling of protection, may be your answer.

      • 1993, Michael Littlewood, Landscape Detailing: Structures, ISBN 0750623209, page 6:

        One very popular type of overhead shelter is the eggcrate. The eggcrate is composed of horizontal roof supports at right angles to one another, with equal spacing in both directions.

   6. Grid-like support structure.
      • 1979, British Nuclear Energy Agency, Welding and fabrication in the nuclear industry, ISBN 0727700839, page 71:

        Eggcrates are carefully aligned at specific locations by adjusting the location of each radially with corresponding tube holes.

      • 2010, F. C. Campbell, Structural Composite Materials, ISBN 1615031405, page 115:

        To prevent distortion during the postcure, the eggcrate support structure is usually attached to the faceplate prior to postcure.

      • 2014, James Mahaffey, Atomic Accidents, ISBN 1480447749:

        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.

2. Alternative form of egg-crating (plastic mat)
   • 2000, Freshwater and Marine Aquarium - Volume 23, Issues 10-12, page 48:

     Many hobbyists are familiar with the material known as "eggcrate." For those who don't know, eggcrate is made of plastic strips forming a grid of squares about 1/2" wide; it is available in most hardware stores in 2' x 4' sheets and usually costs less than $10.

3. A display that egg-crates multiple images.
   • 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Game Preview:

     The eggcrate display has been used on more game shows than any other score display in history, and is still used today on The Price Is Right.

動詞

eggcrate (三人称単数 現在形 eggcrates, 現在分詞 eggcrating, 過去形および過去分詞形 eggcrated)

1. Alternative form of egg-crate