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名詞

overplate (複数形 overplates)

1. In armour, a large pauldron protecting the shoulder, or a cubitiere protecting the elbow.
2. A layer of metal that covers an undercoat.
   • 1981, Diesel Progress North American - Volume 47, page 34:

     Fatigue or cracking due to cyclic loading of the overplate is influenced by its thickness.

   • 2001, Karl J. Puttlitz, ‎Paul Totta, Area Array Interconnection Handbook, →ISBN, page 846:

     Although a minimum 30 micro-inch Au layer is the normal connector contact overplate thickness, a 30 micro-inch layer of nickel-palladium (Ni/Pd) with a Au flash has been reported resistant to both and hydrogen BGA

3. A flat protective sheet that covers something
   • 1994, Keith F. Thomas, Prosthetic Rehabilitation, page 96:

     The next phase is to adapt a wax sheet to fit against the vertical flange of the stage, so forming an overplate.

4. (geology) A tectonic plate that has moved over and covered another tectonic plate.
   • 2012, Franco Pirajno, Hydrothermal Mineral Deposits, →ISBN:

     The once near-surface rocks will be relatively more oxidised, so that the fluids will tend to oxidise the overplate and, consequently will not precipitate silica but rather dissolve it.

動詞

overplate (三人称単数 現在形 overplates, 現在分詞 overplating, 過去形および過去分詞形 overplated)

1. To form an overplate.
   • 1973, William H. Safranek, ‎Eric W. Brooman, Finishing and electroplating die cast and wrought zinc, page 21:

     Pits in the nickel plate were introduced by accelerated corrosion testing and the casting was overplated with copper before sectioning.

   • 1992, Linda G. Cima, ‎Eyal S. Ron, Tissue-inducing Biomaterials: Symposium Held December 4-6, 1991, Boston:

     The mesenchymal or cell-matrix tissue can be constituted with smooth muscle cells and overplated with endothelial cells to simulate the wall of an arterial vessel.

   • 2012, Raymond H. Clark, Handbook of Printed Circuit Manufacturing, →ISBN, page 285:

     Obviously, it does little good to meet the tolerance of the +0.005 inch, only to overplate the holes with lesser tolerance.

   • 2012, Roger Narayan, ‎Susmita Bose, ‎Amit Bandyopadhyay, Biomaterials Science: Processing, Properties and Applications II, →ISBN:

     If there is free iron on the surface, copper will overplate onto iron.

2. (geology, of a tectonic plate) To move on top of and cover another tectonic plate.
   • 1996, Journal of Geoscience Education - Volume 44, page 496:

     Reflectance spectroscopy (Roush かつ others, 1993) suggests Mars has a dominantly basaltic crust, but this result may apply only to the surficial rocks, which could be overplated basalt (Lowman, 1989).

   • 2012, Franco Pirajno, Hydrothermal Mineral Deposits, →ISBN:

     ...which may have overplated the Archean continents in response to the widespread rifting characteristics of this time of the Earth's history.

3. To form an overly thick plate on top of something.
   • 2007, Takeshi Hattori, Cleaning and Surface Conditioning Technology in Semiconductor Device Manufacturing 10, →ISBN:

     A comparison is shown in figure 1 where it can be seen that with positive photoresist (top) the solder is overplated and with thick negative photoresist (bottom) the solder remains in the photresist pattern.

アナグラム

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