patress
English
Alternative forms
- pattress
Etymology
Alteration of pateras, from Latin patera (“dish, saucer”).
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
See also
patress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- “pattress” in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
Anagrams
- Pasters, pasters, repasts, sparest