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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

platine

, fr.

plat

flat. See

, and cf.

(Mach.)

(a)

The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.

(b)

Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression.

(c)

The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; – also called

table

Noun.

[from its flatness.] Among printers, the flat part of a press by which the impression is made.

See also: platen

plåten