egg-crating

egg-crating is the present participle and gerund of egg-crate.

Noun

egg-crating (uncountable)

textured surface or insert.
- The soffit over the windows and arcade is of uninterrupted egg-crating.1952, Light and Lighting and Environmental Design
- Spotlights in egg-crating over counters give dramatic emphasis to cabinets at night.1953, American Lumberman & Building Products Merchandiser
style of roof
- For the egg-crating, 2x4's proved adequate, as likely they would have for the wall railing; but greater leaway [sic] was provided and proved fortunate since there was a slight pitch from the house roof to the wall.1961, Bromeliad Society, Bulletin - Volumes 11-15, page 46
A plastic mat of horizontal and vertical strips that form squares with holes in the centers.
- These little plants that I top-water sit on egg-crating which is atop a capillary mat.1986, The Indoor Garden - Volumes 23-26
- Matting offers the same type of benefit, as does egg-crating.2002, African Violet Magazine - Volume 55, page 50
(boating) The process of strengthening a hull by multiple support points.
- While the hull of the Viking 57 is still curing in the mold, about two weeks into the boat building schedule, workmen install the engine compartment bulkheads and the "egg-crating" members, the interlocked wooden framework running fore-and-aft and athwartships.1989, Lakeland Boating - Volume 44, page 100

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

To put into egg crates.
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
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
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
(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
To display multiple images on a single screen separated by sharp edges.

What does egg-crating mean?: Egg-crating means textured surface or insert.
What is egg-crating the present participle and gerund of?: Egg-crating is the present participle and gerund of egg-crate.
What part of speech is egg-crating?: Egg-crating is a noun.

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