单词 | lucite |
释义 | Luciten. A proprietary name for a solid, transparent plastic that is a methyl methacrylate resin; perspex. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > synthetic resins and plastics > [noun] > plastic > capable of hardening after heating or (re)shaping > solid transparent methyl methacrylate1933 Perspex1935 Plexiglas1935 Lucite1937 1937 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 6 July 9/1 E. I DuPont de Nemours and Company. Lucite. For thermo~plastic synthetic resin material, known as methyl methacrylate, in the form of sheets, rods, and tubes, and in powdered or granular form. 1939 Reader's Digest Feb. 81/1 Light flows through rods made of Lucite, a du Pont plastic, as water flows through a pipe. 1953 J. Y. Cousteau Silent World 89 Through the lucite windows [of the Bathyscaphe] the pilots could look into a landscape lighted by exterior floodlamps. 1973 R. Hayes Hungarian Game xv. 98 The system had two Lucite indicators, one red the other green. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1937 |
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