warpagen.
/ˈwɔːpɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈwɔrpɪdʒ/ 1. Apparently a charge for ‘warping’ or hauling ships entering certain harbours.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > shipping dues > [noun]
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shore-levy-
1863–7 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Suppl. Warpage, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbours.
2. The extent or result of warping (sense 6).
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the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [noun] > action or fact of putting or being out of shape > distortion > twisting and bending > instance or result of
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warpage1950
1950 J. Osborne Dental Mech. (ed. 3) xi. 195 The celluloid bases of 1870..suffered from warpage in the mouth.
1952 Shell Aviation News No. 163. 14 (caption) Straight-edge laid along surface of wing leading-edge shows that the earlier warpage has been entirely eliminated.
1969 Monroe & Chitwood in G. Lubin Handbk. Fiberglass & Adv. Plastics Composites xiv. 325 If warpage is a problem, then the part must be post-cured on a post-cure fixture which holds the part to contour.
1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 221 We're warpage in the drift to fin de siècle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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