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== Description == | == Description == | ||
| − | A sheet of [ | + | A sheet of [[iron]] or [[steel]] originally used to make the casing for steam boilers. Boilerplate is now a term used any plate of rolled iron or steel with thicknesses of about 0.5 - 1.0 cm. |
== Synonyms and Related Terms == | == Synonyms and Related Terms == | ||
Revision as of 08:33, 9 January 2014
Description
A sheet of Iron or Steel originally used to make the casing for steam boilers. Boilerplate is now a term used any plate of rolled iron or steel with thicknesses of about 0.5 - 1.0 cm.
Synonyms and Related Terms
boiler iron; boiler plate
Authority
- G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 106
- Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996
- Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997
- The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998