Definition of Cover plate

1. Noun. Covering consisting of a plate used to cover over or close in a chamber or receptacle.

Generic synonyms: Covering

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cover Plate

cover crop
cover crops
cover drive
cover drives
cover for
cover girl
cover girls
cover letter
cover letters
cover meter
cover meters
cover one's bases
cover one’s feet
cover plate (current term)
cover point
cover slip
cover song
cover stock
cover stories
cover story
cover test
cover the bases
cover up
cover version
cover versions
coverability
coverable

Literary usage of Cover plate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Theory of Structures by Charles Milton Spofford (1915)
"Cover-plate Splice. A cover-plate splice may always be made by the addition of a splice plate of the same size as the plate to be cut, and the use of ..."

2. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"If the splice is made near the end of a cover plate, the cover plate may be ... A cover plate may be spliced by using a splice plate of the same net area ..."

3. The Theory and Practice of Modern Framed Structures, Designed for the Use of by John Butler Johnson, Charles Walter Bryan, Frederick Eugene Turneaure, William Spaulding Kinne (1916)
"Splice of cover plate.—In splicing an outside cover plate the splice plate is made of the ... Where an inside plate is spliced by means of a cover plate the ..."

4. The Graphic Method by Influence Lines for Bridge and Roof Computations by William Hubert Burr, Myron Samuel Falk (1912)
"Length of Cover-plate. The length of the cover-plate will be determined by assuming that the bending moment follows a parabolic law. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"In В t He vanes are fixed on one side of a disk, keyed on the shaft, and limited by a cover plate parallel to the disk. Parallel flow or axial now turbines ..."

6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The weight s1 is not level on its bottom with the top surface of the cover plate J', nor is the quantity of metal on one side of the rod as great и that on ..."

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