Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a steam-engine, a cover-plate; a plate on the back of a slide-valve designed to relieve the pressure of the valve on the seat; a balance-plate designed to receive the pressure of the steam against a fixed abutment, so that such pressure does not reach the sliding valve and force it against its seat.
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Examples
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The IEDs ranged from simple victim-operated bombs, typically pressure-plate devices made from wood and springs, to more complex devices that were remotely detonated using a command wire.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The IEDs ranged from simple victim-operated bombs, typically pressure-plate devices made from wood and springs, to more complex devices that were remotely detonated using a command wire.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The IEDs ranged from simple victim-operated bombs, typically pressure-plate devices made from wood and springs, to more complex devices that were remotely detonated using a command wire.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The IEDs ranged from simple victim-operated bombs, typically pressure-plate devices made from wood and springs, to more complex devices that were remotely detonated using a command wire.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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According to an affidavit filed with the complaint, Stansberry told the air marshals that he had explosives in his laptop computer and dynamite in his boots, which were in his backpack, set to detonate with a pressure-plate switch.
Air Force veteran faces charges from interrupted Paris-to-Atlanta flight 2010
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According to an affidavit filed with the complaint, Stansberry told the air marshals that he had explosives in his laptop computer and dynamite in his boots, which were in his backpack, set to detonate with a pressure-plate switch.
Air Force veteran faces charges from interrupted Paris-to-Atlanta flight 2010
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In Zhari district, troops destroyed an IED factory containing more than 20 jugs of ammonium nitrate, more than 20 pressure-plate devices, artillery rounds, suicide vests, IED-rigged motorcycles, 82 millimetre recoilless rifle rounds, grenades and anti-tank and anti-personnel mines.
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A modification of the ordinary pressure-plate has recently been designed.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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A new pressure-plate with springs has been applied by Mr Browning to Osler's Anemometer, and it is proposed to make such modification as will give a scale extending to 50 lbs. pressure on the square foot.
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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Caches of homemade explosives, pressure-plate bombs, weapons and ammunition were seized.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Slobodan Lekic 2012
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