SHEET GLASS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Glass formed into large thin sheets

Synonyms:

plate glass; sheet glass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sheet glass" is a kind of...):

flat solid; sheet (a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width)

Meronyms (substance of "sheet glass"):

glass (a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sheet glass"):

cover glass; cover slip (a small and very thin piece of glass used to cover the specimen on a microscope slide)

pane; pane of glass; window glass (sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors)

microscope slide; slide (a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study)