one-piece
one-piece adjective: composed of a single integral unit, or so appearing.
Adjective
one-piece (not comparable)
- Composed of a single integral unit, or so appearing.
- A one-piece metal hammer with an applied rubbery handgrip is nonetheless one integral piece, because the head, shaft, handle, and butt are cast in a single mold and/or forged as one seamless unit.
- A man's one-piece swimsuit can be as small as a jock strap, whereas a woman's one-piece swimsuit covers both the genitalia and the breasts.
Noun
one-piece (plural one-pieces)
- A one-piece article of clothing, especially a swimsuit.
Examples of one-piece in a sentence
- The connecting rods are one-piece forgings of alloy steel with a copper/lead steel-backed bearing at the large end and a phosphor-bronze bush at the small end.1958 April, “British Railways First Main-Line Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:
- The two-axle bogies, of Metro-Vick swing-link type, are of one-piece cast-steel construction with box-section side frames and headstocks.1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 728:
Forms of one-piece
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Questions about one-piece
- What does one-piece mean?
- One-piece means composed of a single integral unit, or so appearing.
- How do you use one-piece in a sentence?
- The connecting rods are one-piece forgings of alloy steel with a copper/lead steel-backed bearing at the large end and a phosphor-bronze bush at the small end.
- What part of speech is one-piece?
- One-piece can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near one-piece in the dictionary
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