egg-crate

Verb

egg-crate (third-person singular simple present egg-crates, present participle egg-crating, simple past and past participle egg-crated)

1. To put into egg crates.
2. To compartmentalize; to separate into isolated or self-contained groups, containers, or modules.
   • We have found that with adequate internal egg-crating, no killing agent is needed, and providing that the light is set to go out about dawn no damage due to restlessness is caused to the moths inside.1957, James William Tutt, The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation
   • Parts that are egg-crated are placed in individual cells made of cardboard sheets, like egg packaging or Christmas ornament packaging.1994, Manufacturing Review, page 230
3. To provide with a texture that is typical of an egg carton: either a lattice or having a pattern of regular depressions.
   • This extension allows you to egg-crate any geometry.2015, Alexander Schreyer, Architectural Design with SketchUp, →ISBN, page 137
4. To attach two surfaces together using multiple points of attachment in a lattice pattern, often in order to provide strength while minimizing weight.
   • The hulls are four-compartment vessels with thwartships framing, longitudinally braced, with continuous engineroom girders, "egg-crated" into transverse floors.1950, Pacific Fisherman - Volume 48, page 49
   • The inner bottom of the ship is "egg-crated" with transverse floors at every frame, and is enormously strong.1959, Discovery: A Magazine of Scientific Progress - Volume 20, page 467
5. (lighting) To equip with an egg crate.
   • Front- and backlights are egg-crated Chimera Lightbanks.2007, American Cinematographer - Volume 88, Issues 1-5, page 67
6. To display multiple images on a single screen separated by sharp edges.