Definitions
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 ofcalenders consisting ofalternating steel andfiber -coveredrolls through whichpaper is passed to increase itsdensity ,smoothness andgloss . - verb To pass (paper) through a supercalender.
Etymologies
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super- + calender
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