▪ 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.
| 1870 Eng. Mech. 25 Feb. 590/1, I electro-plated many articles. c 1865 G. Gore in Circ. Sc. I. 215/1 The kind chiefly in use by electro-platers, is the German or Liége Zinc. 1865 Reader 23 Sept. 351/1 Elkington founded the first establishment in this country, for carrying out the processes of electro-plating. 1879 Cassell'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.
| 1844 Penny Mag. XIII. 417 (title) A day at an electro-plate factory. 1866 J. Martineau Ess. I. 30 Our breakfast-table displays our electro-plate. 1868 Holme Lee B. Godfrey xxviii. 149 This is an age of stucco and electroplate. |
Add: II. [f. electro- + plate n.]
2. Biol. = *electroplaque n.
| 1953 Jrnl. Physiol. CXXII. 4P (heading) The discharge of individual electroplates in Raia clavata. 1964 Parker & 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.]. |