Meaning

To put into egg crates..

Definitions by Sense

1. To put into egg crates.
2. To compartmentalize; to separate into isolated or self-contained groups, containers, or modules.
3. To provide with a texture that is typical of an egg carton: either a lattice or having a pattern of regular depressions.
4. To attach two surfaces together using multiple points of attachment in a lattice pattern, often in order to provide strength while minimizing weight.
5. (lighting) To equip with an egg crate.
6. To display multiple images on a single screen separated by sharp edges.
7. (lighting) Alternative form of egg crate.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• egg-crates
• egg-crating
• egg-crated
• egg crate
• eggcrate

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