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Positive :: Positive (n.) The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.

Ichthyodorulite :: Ichthyodorulite (n.) One of the spiny plates foundon the back and tail of certain skates.

Cataphract :: Cataphract (n.) The armor or plate covering some fishes.

Placodermi :: Placodermi (n. pl.) An extinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids. The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See Illust. under Pterichthys, and Coccosteus..

Vane :: Vane (n.) A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely..

Poitrel :: Poitrel (a.) The breastplate of the armor of a horse. See Peytrel.

Bilaminate :: Bilaminate (a.) Formed of, or having, two laminae, or thin plates..

Electroplater :: Electroplater (n.) One who electroplates.

Plate :: Plate (n.) A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates..

Developer :: Developer (n.) A reagent by the action of which the latent image upon a photographic plate, after exposure in the camera, or otherwise, is developed and visible..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates..

Pterichthys :: Pterichthys (n.) A genus of Devonian fossil fishes with winglike appendages. The head and most of the body were covered with large bony plates. See Placodermi.

Madreporite :: Madreporite (n.) The madreporic plate of echinoderms.

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates..

Cuirass :: Cuirass (n.) An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass..

Cut :: Cut (n.) An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts..

Abacinate :: Abacinate (v. t.) To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes.

Tablature :: Tablature (n.) Division into plates or tables with intervening spaces; as, the tablature of the cranial bones..

Phonograph :: Phonograph (n.) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration

Etching :: Etching (v. t.) An impression on paper, parchment, or other material, taken in ink from an etched plate..

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