Definitions
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- adjective of or relating to an older kind of automobile tire that had a flexible tread and relatively stiff sidewalls
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Examples
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The new plant will be built at the same location where Continental currently produces cross-ply tires for buses and trucks at Modipuram in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
Continental to Expand India Tire Operations Nikhil Gulati 2011
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The expansion plan includes building a factory for car and truck radial tires in India by the second half of 2013, as well as doubling the capacity for cross-ply bus and truck tires to 1.0 million a year.
Continental to Expand India Tire Operations Nikhil Gulati 2011
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The Goodyear plant produces new tires and retreads—airlines typically retread tires five or six times—and the supply problems are particularly acute for bias or cross-ply types, the most commonly used in the industry.
Goodyear Says Aircraft Tire Plant Still Hampered Doug Cameron 2011
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* Switch to radial-ply tyres because it offers less rolling resistance and longer life than the cross-ply variety.
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Any reason why you are wanting to stick with cross-ply?
Army Rumour Service 2009
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Also, do you want to develop a Finite Element Program by using special Elements or are you using Failure criteria for composite materials in order to determine allowable strength curves in strain space with superposed failure envelopes of plies (in cross-ply laminates) with different orientations?
iMechanica - Comments msato 2009
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