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PLASTICS
Noun
plastics
plural of plastic
Noun
plastics (uncountable)
Plastic surgery, especially as a profession.
Source: Wiktionary
PLASTIC
-plas"tic. Etym: [Gr.
Definition: A combining form signifying developing, forming, growing; as, heteroplastic, monoplastic, polyplastic.
Plas"tic, a. Etym: [L. plasticus, Gr. plastique.]
1. Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator. Prior. See plastic Nature working to his end. Pope.
2. Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; - - used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.
3. Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts. Medallions . . . fraught with the plastic beauty and grace of the palmy days of Italian art. J. S. Harford. Plastic clay (Geol.), one of the beds of the Eocene period; -- so called because used in making pottery. Lyell.
– Plastic element (Physiol.), one that bears within the germs of a higher form.
– Plastic exudation (Med.), an exudation thrown out upon a wounded surface and constituting the material of repair by which the process of healing is effected.
– Plastic foods. (Physiol.) See the second Note under Food.
– Plastic force. (Physiol.) See under Force.
– Plastic operation, an operation in plastic surgery.
– Plastic surgery, that branch of surgery which is concerned with the repair or restoration of lost, injured, or deformed parts of the body.
Definition: a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic are used to produce articles of commerce (after 1900). [MW10 gives origin of word as 1905]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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