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handsheet en · NOUN

Etymology

From hand + sheet.

Meanings

1. A small sheet of manufactured material created in a laboratory for testing purposes.
   • 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. 1974, Paper Technology - Volume 15, page 347:
   • 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. 1990, The Environmental Challenge of the 1990s, page 300:
   • The handsheets from unbeaten pulps had greater stretch if press dried than thos from beaten pulps. 1977, Vance C. Setterholm, Roy E. Benson, Variables in Press Drying Pulps from Sweetgum and Red Oak, page 5:

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