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Home Dictionary Name: process plateProcess plate
A plate prepared by a mechanical process esp a photomechanical process...
Harvey process
A process of hardening the face of steel as armor plates invented by Hayward A Harvey of New Jersey consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long continued pressure at a very high heat and then to a violent chilling as by a spray of cold water This process gives an armor plate a thick surface of extreme hardness supported by material gradually decreasing in hardness to the unaltered soft steel at the back...
Plating
The art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates or with metal particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal as by mechanical means or by electro magnetic deposition...
Niepces process
A process now no longer used invented by J N Niepce a French chemist in 1829 It depends upon the action of light in rendering a thin layer of bitumen with which the plate is coated insoluble...
Plate
Plate, of gold and silver. The duties were repealed by the (English) Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1890, s. 10. The hall-marking of foreign plate is prescribed by ss. 59, 60 of the (English) Customs Act, 1842, as amended by the Hall-marking of Foreign Plate Act, 1904 (4 Edw. 7, c. 6), which directs that foreign plate when brought to be assayed and stamped, as it has to be by revenue law, must be marked so as to distinguish it as foreign, and that every person bringing it to an assay office, unless it be in charge of a revenue officer, must state in writing whether it was bought in England, Scotland, or Ireland, or was imported from foreign parts. Watch-cases imported from foreign parts before 1st June, 1907, are exempted from assay by the Assay of Imported Watch-Cases (Existing Stocks Exemption) Act, 1907. As to the meaning of 'plate' in ss. 2, 6 of the Plate (Offences) Act, 1738, and other statutes, see Faberge v. Goldsmiths' Co., (1911) 1 Ch 286. Gold watches which are jewelled and...
plate tectonics
A geological theory which holds that the crust of the earth the lithosphere is divided into a small number of large separate plates which float and move slowly around on the more plastic asthenosphere breaking apart and moving away from each other at points where magma upwells from below and driven by such upwellings and other currents on the athenosphere sliding past each other colliding with each other and in some cases being submerged subducted one below the other This theory is now widely accepted and explains many geological phenomena such as the clustered locations of earthquakes mountain building volcanism and the similarities observed between the geology of continents such as South America and Africa which are now far apart but according to the theory were once joined together The motions of such tectonic plates are very slow typically only several centimeters per year but over tens and hundreds of millions of years cause very large changes in the relative positions of the cont...
Plateful
Enough to fill a plate as much as a plate will hold...
Foreign plate
Foreign plate. See PLATE....
Hall-marking of Foreign Plate Act, 1904
Hall-marking of Foreign Plate Act, 1904 (4 Edw. 7, c. 6). See PLATE, and Chitty's Statutes...
Processing
Processing, in common parlance 'processing' is understood as an action which brings forth some change or alteration of the goods or material which is subjected to the act of processing. 'What is necessary in order to characterise an operation as 'processing' is that the commodity must, as a result of the operation, experience some change' (See Chowgule & Co. Pvt. Ltd. v. Union of India, 1981 (1) SCC 653: AIR 1981 SC 1014). In a cold storage, vegetables, fruits and several other articles which requires preservation by refrigeration are stored. While as a result of long storage, Scientific examination might indicate loss of moisture content that is not sufficient for holding that the stored articles have undergone a process, Delhi Cold Storage Pvt. Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax, New Delhi, AIR 1991 SC 2125.Processing, include the preservation of such products as canning, freezing drying, salting, smoking, peeling or filleting etc., Regional Executive, Kerala Fishermen's Welfare Fund...
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