overplating

Verb

overplate (third-person singular simple present overplates, present participle overplating, simple past and past participle overplated)

1. To form an overplate.
   • Pits in the nickel plate were introduced by accelerated corrosion testing and the casting was overplated with copper before sectioning.1973, William H. Safranek, Eric W. Brooman, Finishing and electroplating die cast and wrought zinc, page 21
2. To move on top of and cover another tectonic plate.
   • Reflectance spectroscopy (Roush and others, 1993) suggests Mars has a dominantly basaltic crust, but this result may apply only to the surficial rocks, which could be overplated basalt (Lowman, 1989).1996, Journal of Geoscience Education - Volume 44, page 496
3. To form an overly thick plate on top of something.
   • A comparison is shown in figure 1 where it can be seen that with positive photoresist (top) the solder is overplated and with thick negative photoresist (bottom) the solder remains in the photresist pattern.2007, Takeshi Hattori, Cleaning and Surface Conditioning Technology in Semiconductor Device Manufacturing 10, →ISBN

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