Banding plane
() A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work. |
Bessemer steel
() Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal |
Capping plane
() A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails. |
Cast steel
() See Cast steel, under Steel. |
Convexo-plane
(a.) Convex on one side, and flat on the other |
Plane
(n.) Any tree of the genus Platanus. |
Plane
(a.) Without elevations or depressions |
Plane
(a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface |
Plane
(a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve |
Plane
(a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness |
Plane
(a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings |
Plane
(a.) To make smooth |
Plane
(a.) To efface or remove. |
Plane
(a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth. |
Plane-parallel
(a.) Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass. |
Plane table
() See under Plane, a. |
Plane tree
() Same as 1st Plane. |
Scabbard plane
() See Scaleboard plane, under Scaleboard. |
Steel
(n.) A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon. |
Steel
(n.) An instrument or implement made of steel |
Steel
(n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc. |
Steel
(n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives. |
Steel
(n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint. |
Steel
(n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness |
Steel
(n.) A chalybeate medicine. |
Steel
(n.) To overlay, point, or edge with steel |
Steel
(n.) To make hard or strong |
Steel
(n.) Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities. |
Steel
(n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel. |