egg-crated

English

Verb

egg-crated

1. simple past and past participle of egg-crate

Adjective

egg-crated (not comparable)

1. Having a texture with regular indentations similar to that of an egg carton or regular holes in a grid pattern; corrugated or latticed.
   • 1972, Electronic Design - Volume 20, Part 3, page 41:

     No need for heat-shrink sleeves; egg-crated cavities in the housing give you the insulation you need.

   • 1977 June, “How to Buy a Trail Bed: What Lies Twixt You and the Ground”, in Backpacker, volume 5, number 3, page 76:

     Third, the fingerlike projections of the convoluted egg-crated foams are more subject to damage than the flat surface of conventional pads.

   • 1980, The Architects' Journal - Volume 172, page 167:

     The fluorescent lighting at this deepest part of the plan is not entirely effective because the egg-crated strips tend to dazzle and to make the crucial bookstock section feel dark in comparison.

   • 2003, Kerry Pierce, The Used Lumber Project Book, →ISBN, page 15:

     Some were Shaker oval boxes with lapped fingers tacked into place; some were dovetailed candle boxes; some were boxes bandsawn from solid blocks of wood; and some were jewelry boxes with egg-crated interiors.

   • 2013, Carolyn Gusoff, Katie Beers, Help Me: A Vulnerable Girl., →ISBN:

     The TV inside the box was on, flickering shadows on the egg-crated walls.

   • 2013, Reyner Banham, The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment, →ISBN, page 218:

     By that date however, the final steps towards the true suspended ceiling had been taken -- from 1947 onwards, standard kits of parts existed from which could be assembled systems of translucent, louvered or egg-crated suspended ceilings with suitable provision for the downward diffusion of conditioned air, either through specialised outlets or (in the louvered versions) over the whole ceiling.

2. Compartmentalized; separated into isolated compartments or components.
   • 1982, Interior Design - Volume 53, page 256:

     My goal is to supply the design professional with criteria for decision making in every key area that comprises today's office, whether egg-crated or open plan.

   • 2003, Ross Thomas, Out on the Rim, →ISBN, page 300:

     Maybe a little tricky here and there, and maybe a little too egg-crated, but what the hell, there was a big score involved and none of us, except you and Durant, have worked together for a while.

   • 2010, Paul D. Houston, Giving Wings to Children s Dreams: Making Our Schools Worthy of Our Children, →ISBN, page 43:

     Suddenly, we were asking that all teachers would be highly proficient without dealing with their training, compensation, or the reality of reasonableness of finding millions of highly proficient teachers to fit into those egg-crated organizations that assumed that every teacher had the right stuff to educate every child to high levels, regardless of their background, social setting, or the support they had at home or when they reached school.

3. Having multiple points of attachment in a lattice-like pattern.
   • 1964, Nuclear Engineering - Volume 9, page 277:

     The hull is built on a conventional transverse framing system except for the inner bottom which is "egg crated" below the reactor compartment, located amidships between two upright partitions made of heavy steel.

   • 1992, David M. Aikens, Design of optical instruments, page 205:

     Accordingly, the design features two 0.120 inch thick face skins separated 2.0 inches by a relatively dense discrete rib, egg-crated core.

   • 2013, Lawrence L. Rosine, Advances in Electronic Circuit Packaging: Volume 5, →ISBN, page 73:

     The housing and its base (cold plate) are dip-brazed as a single integral assembly of self-jigging, “egg-crated” aluminum plates.

4. Arranged in a grid pattern; Interleaved.
   • 1980, Energy 10 - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 461:

     Using longer egg-crated (interleaved) mirror strips and a large multielement base plate allows fewer piece-parts and provides an integral structural design which helps the panel overall performance, by minimizing the need for added structure in larger panels.

Adverb

egg-crated (not comparable)

1. In separate compartments.
   • 1953, United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance, Loading and Bracing of Ammunition, Explosives, and Dangerous Articles in Trucks and Trailers, page 4:

     Loose projectiles of not less than 4% inches in diameter are usually shipped egg-crated.