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electroplate

American  
[ih-lek-truh-playt] / ɪˈlɛk trəˌpleɪt /

verb (used with object)

electroplated, electroplating
  1. to plate or coat with a metal by electrolysis.


noun

  1. electroplated articles or ware.

electroplate British  
/ ɪˈlɛktrəʊˌpleɪt /

verb

  1. (tr) to plate (an object) by electrolysis

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. electroplated articles collectively, esp when plated with silver

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. coated with metal by electrolysis; electroplated

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of electroplate

First recorded in 1860–65; electro- + plate 1


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It taught you how to make all sorts of things—galvanic batteries, and kites, and mouse-traps, and how to electroplate things, and how to do wood-carving and leather-work.

From Oswald Bastable and Others by C. E. (Charles Edmund) Brock

These numerous little holes present a difficult surface for making a good wax mold when an electroplate is made for printing.

From Type Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #1 by A. A. Stewart

It has turned the electroplate workshops of the town on to making steel helmets, and in general has been "working in" the smaller engineering concerns so as to make them feed the larger ones.

From The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend by Joseph Hodges Choate

We went on past a display of electroplate with a card about presents in the window, past a window full of white flowers, past a carriage-builder's and a glove shop.

From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

A metallic surface which it is intended to electroplate must, as has been mentioned, be scrupulously clean.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

Next to it, Ms. Van Herpen’s 2012 “Cathedral” dress, 3-D-printed polyamide and electroplated copper, embodies Hamlet’s comment on mankind’s imagination—“how infinite in faculty!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

For example, gold or silver is often electroplated onto less valuable metals.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026

Poor-quality electroplated, galvanized nails or screws could begin to corrode in just a few years.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

Related copper etchings appear in the show, and Barney has electroplated them over varying times, encrusting them with weird metal nodules.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2019

The articles to be silvered are scratch-brushed, washed, and electroplated, till they begin to look undesirably rough.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

They deposited an extremely thin layer of thorium onto stainless steel using electroplating, a technique commonly used in jewelry.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026

They were treated with an electroplating process that fused a copper coating onto the forms, which were finished in bronze.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

Since Faraday’s experiments with electroplating in the 1830s, it had been known that about 100,000 C per mole was needed to plate singly ionized ions.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

Precious metals such as gold could find their way into the sewers courtesy of mining, electroplating, electronics and jewelry manufacturing, or industrial and automotive catalysts.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 16, 2015

To carry out this work, however, an electroplating dynamo, of large amperage, is required, the amperage, of course, depending upon the surface to be treated at one time.

From Electricity for Boys by James Slough Zerbe

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