Dictionary Entry
platen
platen is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
- 2noun
Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression.
- 3noun
The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also called table.
- 4noun
the roller on a typewriter against which the keys strike
- 5noun
the flat plate of a printing press that presses the paper against the type
- 6noun
work table of a machine tool
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