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SHEET GLASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Glass formed into large thin sheets
Synonyms:
plate glass; sheet glass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("sheet glass" is a kind of...):
flat solid; sheet (a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width)
Meronyms (substance of "sheet glass"):
glass (a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sheet glass"):
cover glass; cover slip (a small and very thin piece of glass used to cover the specimen on a microscope slide)
pane; pane of glass; window glass (sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors)
microscope slide; slide (a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study)
