thermoform
7.9
A machine that heats plastic sheets and shapes them into forms
- noun
- Specialized
:
termoformadora
- The factory uses a thermoform to create custom plastic packaging for its products.
Examples
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With a thermoform, they can efficiently produce various shapes from heated plastic sheets.
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The color pictures for this book were silk screened onto plastic pages and then heat vacuumed with a thermoform machine by View International Foundation.
Academic text (2007) -
Equipment to mold or thermoform resins costs much less than high-powered presses and expensive tools needed to stamp metal.
Academic text (1999) -
The artist designed a unique installation using forms generated by a thermoform machine.
Surface Forms
thermoform singular
thermoforms plural
Etymology
Thermoform joins thermo- ('heat') and form ('shape'), like in thermometer for heat and the everyday word form for shape. So a thermoform machine 'heats' plastic sheets to 'form' them into parts or containers.
