1
: a flat plate
especially
: one that exerts or receives pressure (as in a printing press)
2
: the roller of a typewriter or printer
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Craftsman’s cordless 20-volt oscillating tool kit comes with a varied selection of attachments, including wood and metal blades, a scraper, and a sanding platen.
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Tony Carrick, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2023
By day, the watch boasts a sandwich dial (a layered dial with a luminous base disk covered by a platen with the index apertures cut out) that offers depth and dimension, and – by night – great luminosity thanks to the P51 Super-LumiNova that emanates from the dial architecture.
—Roberta Naas, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
Can anyone argue the clackety-clack-clack of a metal typebar hammering against the platen on a typewriter has a symphonic quality that a computer keyboard never will?
—Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2019
The ceramic substrate, called a platen, will then be glued on with a thermally conductive adhesive.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2017
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Tony Carrick, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2023
By day, the watch boasts a sandwich dial (a layered dial with a luminous base disk covered by a platen with the index apertures cut out) that offers depth and dimension, and – by night – great luminosity thanks to the P51 Super-LumiNova that emanates from the dial architecture.
—Roberta Naas, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
Can anyone argue the clackety-clack-clack of a metal typebar hammering against the platen on a typewriter has a symphonic quality that a computer keyboard never will?
—Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2019
The ceramic substrate, called a platen, will then be glued on with a thermally conductive adhesive.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2017
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