Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Plating"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Plate \Plate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Plating}.]
1. To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals,
either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a
chemical process, as electrotyping.
2. To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with
metal for defense.
Thus plated in habiliments of war. --Shak.
3. To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.
4. To beat into thin, flat pieces, or lamin[ae].
5. To calender; as, to plate paper.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Plating \Plat"ing\, n.
1. 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.
2. A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.
3. A coating or defensive armor of metal (usually steel)
plates.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
plating
n 1: a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface [syn: {metal
plating}]
2: the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis)
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