Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A plate, frame, or platform serving as a base or support for a machine.

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  • noun engineering The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed.

Etymologies

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bed +‎ plate

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Examples

  • Mounted on the end of the bedplate is the oil pump, operated from the main shaft of the turbine as previously stated.

    Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers 1902

  • And we got to cut out and splice the lathe's bedplate to make room for the rotors.

    Space Platform Leinster, Murray, 1896- 1953

  • Half an inch is allowed top and bottom for the turnovers by which the supports are screwed to the bedplate and base.

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  • Support of bedplate (1/20 inch zinc), 3 inches high from wooden base to underside of bedplate.

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  • Upon the platform of the casemate, or deck of the ship, or turret, is laid the heavy bed or traverse plate, cast hollow in iron, holding the vertical pivot at its forward end, on which the gun slide traverses in azimuth, and at its rear end the segment plate, bolted down and separately adjustable as to position upon the bedplate.

    Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

  • Make a punch mark on the bedplate, and using this as centre for one of the points, describe an arc of a circle with the other.

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  • A hole 3/4 inch in diameter should be cut in the bedplate for the exhaust pipe, round a centre 2 inches from the end and

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  • Screw G1 G2 down to the bedplate, 3/4 inch away from the cylinder centre line.

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  • Make a bold scratch across the bedplate to show where the centre line of the shaft should be, and another along the bed for the piston-rod centre line.

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  • A single link, N, transmits the motion from a pin on M to the double bell-crank lever O (see Fig. 66) pivoted on a standard, P, attached to the bedplate.

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