platen

[ US /ˈpɫætən/ ]
[ UK /plˈe‍ɪtən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the roller on a typewriter against which the keys strike
  2. work table of a machine tool
  3. the flat plate of a printing press that presses the paper against the type
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How To Use platen In A Sentence

  • Its 207-ton moving platen is the third largest nodular iron casting in the world.
  • A knowledge of platen presswork does not qualify a man to run a cylinder press, and as a rule the platen pressman who wants to change must serve some time as a cylinder pressfeeder and cylinder pressman's assistant. Wage Earning and Education
  • But if Platen slanged Heine with anti-Semitic remarks and got him thrown out of the country, and Heine replied with anti-homosexual remarks, I don't think the exchange was on a terribly literary level! Languagehat.com: GHASELIG.
  • You can lay your shirts flat without a platen or palette inside, or you can make a cardboard or chipboard platen to stick inside.
  • Please use the chase dimension only when ordering tympan for your ‘platen’ press.
  • Fauna recorded within the park include giant otter Pteronura brasiliensis (V), La Plata otter Lutra platensis, coatimundi Nasua nasua, ocelot Felis pardalis, jaguar Panthera onca, puma Felis concolor, margay Leopardus wiedii, brocket deer Mazama rufina (LR) and American tapir Tapirus terrestris (LR). Iguacu National Park, Brazil
  • The discovery and characterization of new drugs targeting key enzymes involved in essential mycobacterial biosynthetic pathways is paramount but without the introduction of novel lead compounds, such as platensimycin antitubercular therapy will not proceed fast enough to cope with the increasing resistance observed today. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Platensimycin targets fatty acid biosynthesis in these species by inhibiting FabF and FabH, two β-ketoacyl-ACP synthases (KAS) of the bacterial multienzyme fatty acid synthase complex FAS-II PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Fauna recorded within the park include giant otter Pteronura brasiliensis (V), La Plata otter Lutra platensis, coatimundi Nasua nasua, ocelot Felis pardalis, jaguar Panthera onca, puma Felis concolor, margay Leopardus wiedii, brocket deer Mazama rufina (LR) and American tapir Tapirus terrestris (LR). Iguacu National Park, Brazil
  • The platen is attached to that big PVC pipe as an axle. Wherein I bare my soul « The Half-Baked Maker
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