postform

verb

1. To shape or mold as a final stage of construction.

   “Polyester laminates which are made with woven fabric fillers postform much more satisfactorily than do paper base laminates.”

   “Whether you postform laminated plastic (the machine here is heating a seamless phenolic plastic counter top), or rely on temperature indicating controllers for any of a thousand other reasons, Fenwal's 541 is the easiest to operate!”

   “An interesting post-processing capability provided by the thermoplastic matrix in the pultrusion market is the ability to postform within certain constraints and to join profiles by welding.”

adj

1. Pertaining to the process of postforming.

   “With the help and encouragement of the Formica people, they developed much of their postform equipment and expanded their operations.”

   “The postform profile gives a much softer look to a counter, desk, table or work top and also does away with sometimes unsightly joints on counter edges which, in applications were a high hygienic standard is necessary, can create problems.”

   “Premolded, or postform, counters are made by machines that bond laminate sheets over a particleboard substrate.”

   “Postform counters come with a pre-attached backsplash, plus a sheet of laminate that starts on the top of the backsplash and continues around the counter's rounded front edge.”

noun

1. An item in its final version after a manufacturing or engineering process.

   “In the first operation, it was attempted to bulge the postform in one bulge and the strain capability of the material was exceeded resulting in rupture of the vessel.”

   “The finished vessels (postforms) are designed to accommodate the applied pressure, shock, vibration and other operational and environmental loads based on the materials properties derived from the aforementioned cryostraining”

   “The prepeg was taken out from a spool and cut perpendicular to the fiber axis to form a postform (8 mm x 25 mm x 40 mm). The postform was CIPed under 180 MPa (except in the case of liquid Si infiltration) and then pyrolyzed at up to 700-1000°C in Ar.”

   “The prepreg was cut into segments of equal size to form a postform in a manner so that the fibers were arrayed in the same direction.”

2. The form or version something has after a process completes.

   “Dekel and Sahni [DS1] and Bar-on and Vishkin [BV] proposed parallel algorithms for transforming arithmetic expressions to postform and treeform.”

   “Four forms of the test of logical inference were used: a pre- and postform for the antecedent task and a pre- and postform for the consequent task.”

   “This tends to obscure attention on real social and economic problems and to avoid a critique of capitalism itself and its weaknesses, It also interferes with the advance toward socialism; thus the discourse turns to postforms of society in order to reach idealistically toward some form of society that will not have to confront the realities of the capitalist world.”

3. A form that is filled out after the completion of something.

   “The postforms were completed six weeks after counseling was concluded.”

   “For comparability, the raw scores on the different forms (pre- and postforms) and levels of the tests were converted to standard scores.”

4. A form that is designed to be filled out and sent through the mail.

   “If you'd like to comment on this piece please send your comments using the postform below.”

   “Send us your reasons, views and experiences using the postform.”