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patress
patress
English
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Noun
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A single (1 gang) white plastic surface pattress box
patress (plural patresses)
- an adapting plate or mounting used to fix an object to a surface or a substrate where the difference in character between the object and that to which it is mounted prevents direct mounting, eg in fitting a flat panel to a curved surface