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▪ I. electro-plate, v.|ɪˈlɛktrəʊpleɪt| [f. electro- + plate.] trans. To coat with silver by electrolysis. Hence, eˈlectro-ˌplater, one who electroplates. eˈlectro-ˌplating vbl. n.
1870Eng. Mech. 25 Feb. 590/1, I electro-plated many articles. c1865G. Gore in Circ. Sc. I. 215/1 The kind chiefly in use by electro-platers, is the German or Liége Zinc. 1865Reader 23 Sept. 351/1 Elkington founded the first establishment in this country, for carrying out the processes of electro-plating. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 93 The electro-plating process began at Birmingham. ▪ II. electro-plate, n.|ɪˈlɛktrəʊpleɪt| [f. prec. vb.] The ware produced by electro-plating.
1844Penny Mag. XIII. 417 (title) A day at an electro-plate factory. 1866J. Martineau Ess. I. 30 Our breakfast-table displays our electro-plate. 1868Holme Lee B. Godfrey xxviii. 149 This is an age of stucco and electroplate.
Add:II. [f. electro- + plate n.] 2. Biol. = *electroplaque n.
1953Jrnl. Physiol. CXXII. 4P (heading) The discharge of individual electroplates in Raia clavata. 1964Parker & Haswell Text-bk. Zool. (ed. 7) II. 335 The delaying mechanism which, after the reception of external stimuli, ensures the electric potential of all the widely separated electro-plates discharge at about the same time has not been satisfactorily explained. 1970[see *electrocyte n.]. |