Rabat

Quick meaning: Rabat is a noun meaning A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.

Meaning

A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A piece of fabric fitted to the collar covering the shirt-front worn by Catholic and Anglican clergy.
2. (countable) The clerical linen collar itself.
3. To rotate a plane of projection.

Example Sentences

The following rule should be noted: In solving the problem of the oblique plane, convert the oblique plane into an inclined plane, and rabat it about its H.T.

Generally the true form of the diagonal is drawn on the half-breadth plan, being obtained by rabatting the plane containing the diagonal about the line through m into the horizontal plane.

For example, we would tend to say that qa is rabatted (rotated) around the axis qd, but notice that conventional rabatment cannot explain the position of plane topl, since it should be rabatted around the line ix in the corporea, and instead it has been rotated around a vertical line passing through d.

Word Forms

• rabats
• rabatting
• rabatted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include collar, flap, rebate, bond, morocco, barbotine.

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