Definition of Cross-ply

1. Adjective. Of or relating to an older kind of automobile tire that had a flexible tread and relatively stiff sidewalls.

Partainyms: Pneumatic Tire

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cross-ply

cross-linked
cross-linking reagent
cross-matching
cross-modal
cross-multiplication
cross-multiplications
cross-multiplied
cross-multiplies
cross-multiply
cross-multiplying
cross-over
cross-party
cross-patch
cross-phrasing
cross-platform
cross-ply (current term)
cross-pollinate
cross-pollinating
cross-pollination
cross-process
cross-processing
cross-purpose
cross-purposes
cross-question
cross-questioner
cross-ratio
cross-reacting agglutinin
cross-reacting antibody
cross-reacting material
cross-reactive antibody

Literary usage of Cross-ply

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

1. Buckling of Bars, Plates, and Shells by Robert M. Jones (2006)
"4.8.4 General kZ Results for Antisymmetric Cross-Ply Laminates Rather than continue with ... The shells studied are cross-ply laminated as in Figure 4-69, ..."

2. The Works of the Reverend John Fletcher by John Fletcher (1833)
"Stand behind the cross; ply there the heavenly ordnance, and you shall bo invincible: yea, one of you shall chase a thousand. It is the command broken in ..."

3. Superuse: constructing new architecture by shortcutting material flows by Ed van Hinte, Cesare Peeren, Jan Jongert (2007)
"The radial tyre construction gives more strength than the old cross ply. Steel belts made of rubberized steel cord provide reinforcement to the ..."

4. Can Cars Come Clean?: Strategies for Low-emission Vehicles by OECD Staff, Working Group on Low-Emission Vehicles (2004)
"87 The rolling resistance increases from speeds above 50 mph for old cross ply and steel radial tyres, but the rolling resistance for modern "energy" tyres ..."

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