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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A calender with a number of rollers for giving a high finish or gloss to paper.
  • transitive verb To process (paper) in a supercalender.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To give additional smoothness or glaze to (a fabric that has already received calendering).
  • noun One of the rotating cylinders or rolls used in super-calendering paper. See supercalender, v., and super calendered.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A stack of calenders consisting of alternating steel and fiber-covered rolls through which paper is passed to increase its density, smoothness and gloss.
  • verb To pass (paper) through a supercalender.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ calender

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