Egg-crate

"Egg-crate" in a Sentence (15 examples)

We have found that with adequate internal egg-crating, no killing agent is needed, and providing that the light is set to go out about dawn no damage due to restlessness is caused to the moths inside.

Parts that are egg-crated are placed in individual cells made of cardboard sheets, like egg packaging or Christmas ornament packaging.

I'm not talking about enough templates to egg-crate the car.

When we examine model cyberschools, however, we find that despite their innovations in technology and space utilization, they still rely on age-grading, (virtual) egg-crating, predetermined curriculum, and standardized tests.

This extension allows you to egg-crate any geometry.

The hulls are four-compartment vessels with thwartships framing, longitudinally braced, with continuous engineroom girders, "egg-crated" into transverse floors.

The inner bottom of the ship is "egg-crated" with transverse floors at every frame, and is enormously strong.

While most builders assemble a bottom-support system using plywood stringers and floors egg-crated together, then glassed into the hull, Thunderbird has switched to a molded-fiberglass grid for most of its FASTECH hulls.

Egg-crating can also be used to support metal molds where the thickness of the metal has been reduced to improve weight savings and costs.

But three boards cannot be “egg-crated” together without cutting some conductors, thereby necessitating pigtail or wire bond connections.

Front- and backlights are egg-crated Chimera Lightbanks.

Often used with the studio is the egg-crate, which minimizes side spill and does make the beam a bit more controllable.

Pa strings the lights while Janet takes the ornaments one by one from the cardboard egg-crates.

There was no fuel cladding, no zirconium egg-crates holding the fuel in a rigid matrix, no steam in the reactor vessel to float away with fission products into the atmosphere, and, of course, there was no danger of the fuel melting.

New virtual learning environments (VLEs) such as Eluminate (now Blackboard Collaborate) are virtual egg-crates.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.