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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]postform (third-person singular simple present postforms, present participle postforming, simple past and past participle postformed)
- To shape or mold as a final stage of construction.
- 1948, Gordon Mabey Kline, Modern Plastics Encyclopedia, page 694:
- Polyester laminates which are made with woven fabric fillers postform much more satisfactorily than do paper base laminates.
- 1958, Instruments & Control Systems - Volume 31, Part 2, page 1914:
- Whether you postform laminated plastic (the machine here is heating a seamless phenolic plastic counter top), or rely on temperature indicating controllers for any of a thousand other reasons, Fenwal's 541 is the easiest to operate!
- 1986, James M. Margolis, Advanced thermoset composites: industrial and commercial applications:
- An interesting post-processing capability provided by the thermoplastic matrix in the pultrusion market is the ability to postform within certain constraints and to join profiles by welding.
Adjective
[edit]postform (comparative more postform, superlative most postform)
- Pertaining to the process of postforming.
- 1965, Charlton W. Tebeau, Ruby Leach Carson, Florida from Indian Trail to Space Age: A History - Volume 3, page 910:
- With the help and encouragement of the Formica people, they developed much of their postform equipment and expanded their operations.
- 1991, Wood Southern Africa - Volume 17, page 49:
- The postform profile gives a much softer look to a counter, desk, table or work top and also does away with sometimes unsightly joints on counter edges which, in applications were a high hygienic standard is necessary, can create problems.
- 1999, John P. Holms, Kitchens & Baths 1-2-3: Your Blueprint for a Perfect Kitchen Or Bath, →ISBN:
- Premolded, or postform, counters are made by machines that bond laminate sheets over a particleboard substrate.
- 2003, Home Improvement 1-2-3, →ISBN, page 402:
- Postform counters come with a pre-attached backsplash, plus a sheet of laminate that starts on the top of the backsplash and continues around the counter's rounded front edge.
Noun
[edit]postform (plural postforms)
- An item in its final version after a manufacturing or engineering process.
- 1974, Vacuum Jacketed Composite Propulsion Feedlines for Cryogenic Launch and Space Vehicles, page 94:
- In the first operation, it was attempted to bulge the postform in one bulge and the strain capability of the material was exceeded resulting in rupture of the vessel.
- 1978, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Winter Annual Meeting: Technical papers presented and available:
- The finished vessels (postforms) are designed to accommodate the applied pressure, shock, vibration and other operational and environmental loads based on the materials properties derived from the aforementioned cryostraining
- 1989, Basic Research in Superconductor, Ceramic, and Semiconductor Sciences at Selected Japanese Laboratories:
- The prepeg was taken out from a spool and cut perpendicular to the fiber axis to form a postform (8 mm x 25 mm x 40 mm). The postform was CIPed under 180 MPa (except in the case of liquid Si infiltration) and then pyrolyzed at up to 700-1000°C in Ar.
- 1993, R. Naslain, J. Lamon, D. Doumeingts, High Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composites, page 414:
- The prepreg was cut into segments of equal size to form a postform in a manner so that the fibers were arrayed in the same direction.
- The form or version something has after a process completes.
- 1986, Fillia Makedon, Kurt Mehlhorn, T. Papatheodorou, VLSI Algorithms and Architectures, →ISBN:
- Dekel and Sahni [DS1] and Bar-on and Vishkin [BV] proposed parallel algorithms for transforming arithmetic expressions to postform and treeform.
- 1993, Morton Wagman, Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence, page 31:
- Four forms of the test of logical inference were used: a pre- and postform for the antecedent task and a pre- and postform for the consequent task.
- 2000, Ronald H. Chilcote, Imperialism: Theoretical Directions, page 26:
- This tends to obscure attention on real social and economic problems and to avoid a critique of capitalism itself and its weaknesses, It also interferes with the advance toward socialism; thus the discourse turns to postforms of society in order to reach idealistically toward some form of society that will not have to confront the realities of the capitalist world.
- A form that is filled out after the completion of something.
- 1977, Counselor education and supervision - Volumes 17-18, page 96:
- The postforms were completed six weeks after counseling was concluded.
- 1994, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education:
- For comparability, the raw scores on the different forms (pre- and postforms) and levels of the tests were converted to standard scores.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]postform (plural postforms)
- A form that is designed to be filled out and sent through the mail.
- 2004, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources, Cervical Cancer and Human Papillomavirus:
- If you'd like to comment on this piece please send your comments using the postform below.
- 2005, Oliver Zöllner, Targeting international audiences:
- Send us your reasons, views and experiences using the postform.