handsheet

English

Etymology

From hand +‎ sheet.

Noun

handsheet (plural handsheets)

  1. A small sheet of manufactured material created in a laboratory for testing purposes.
    • 1974, Paper Technology - Volume 15, page 347:
      The improved sheet formation of foam-laid paper is shown visually in Fig. 2 where softwood kraft handsheets, water-laid and foam-laid are shown for comparison.
    • 1977, Vance C. Setterholm, Roy E. Benson, Variables in Press Drying Pulps from Sweetgum and Red Oak, page 5:
      The handsheets from unbeaten pulps had greater stretch if press dried than thos from beaten pulps.
    • 1990, The Environmental Challenge of the 1990s, page 300:
      With this fiber, we then formed a series of air-laid and water-laid handsheets varying the temperature of the forming or rewetting water, the forming substrate, and, because press-dry effectiveness has been shown to vary with sheet weight, the grammage.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.