postform

English

Etymology 1

From post- +‎ form.

Verb

postform (third-person singular simple present postforms, present participle postforming, simple past and past participle postformed)

1. To shape or mold as a final stage of construction.
   • 1948, Gordon Mabey Kline, Modern Plastics Encyclopedia, page 694:

     Polyester laminates which are made with woven fabric fillers postform much more satisfactorily than do paper base laminates.

   • 1958, Instruments & Control Systems - Volume 31, Part 2, page 1914:

     Whether you postform laminated plastic (the machine here is heating a seamless phenolic plastic counter top), or rely on temperature indicating controllers for any of a thousand other reasons, Fenwal's 541 is the easiest to operate!

   • 1986, James M. Margolis, Advanced thermoset composites: industrial and commercial applications:

     An interesting post-processing capability provided by the thermoplastic matrix in the pultrusion market is the ability to postform within certain constraints and to join profiles by welding.

Adjective

postform (comparative more postform, superlative most postform)

1. Pertaining to the process of postforming.
   • 1965, Charlton W. Tebeau, Ruby Leach Carson, Florida from Indian Trail to Space Age: A History - Volume 3, page 910:

     With the help and encouragement of the Formica people, they developed much of their postform equipment and expanded their operations.

   • 1991, Wood Southern Africa - Volume 17, page 49:

     The postform profile gives a much softer look to a counter, desk, table or work top and also does away with sometimes unsightly joints on counter edges which, in applications were a high hygienic standard is necessary, can create problems.

   • 1999, John P. Holms, Kitchens & Baths 1-2-3: Your Blueprint for a Perfect Kitchen Or Bath, →ISBN:

     Premolded, or postform, counters are made by machines that bond laminate sheets over a particleboard substrate.

   • 2003, Home Improvement 1-2-3, →ISBN, page 402:

     Postform counters come with a pre-attached backsplash, plus a sheet of laminate that starts on the top of the backsplash and continues around the counter's rounded front edge.

Noun

postform (plural postforms)

1. An item in its final version after a manufacturing or engineering process.
   • 1974, Vacuum Jacketed Composite Propulsion Feedlines for Cryogenic Launch and Space Vehicles, page 94:

     In the first operation, it was attempted to bulge the postform in one bulge and the strain capability of the material was exceeded resulting in rupture of the vessel.

   • 1978, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Winter Annual Meeting: Technical papers presented and available:

     The finished vessels (postforms) are designed to accommodate the applied pressure, shock, vibration and other operational and environmental loads based on the materials properties derived from the aforementioned cryostraining

   • 1989, Basic Research in Superconductor, Ceramic, and Semiconductor Sciences at Selected Japanese Laboratories:

     The prepeg was taken out from a spool and cut perpendicular to the fiber axis to form a postform (8 mm x 25 mm x 40 mm). The postform was CIPed under 180 MPa (except in the case of liquid Si infiltration) and then pyrolyzed at up to 700-1000°C in Ar.

   • 1993, R. Naslain, J. Lamon, D. Doumeingts, High Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composites, page 414:

     The prepreg was cut into segments of equal size to form a postform in a manner so that the fibers were arrayed in the same direction.

2. The form or version something has after a process completes.
   • 1986, Fillia Makedon, Kurt Mehlhorn, T. Papatheodorou, VLSI Algorithms and Architectures, →ISBN:

     Dekel and Sahni [DS1] and Bar-on and Vishkin [BV] proposed parallel algorithms for transforming arithmetic expressions to postform and treeform.

   • 1993, Morton Wagman, Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence, page 31:

     Four forms of the test of logical inference were used: a pre- and postform for the antecedent task and a pre- and postform for the consequent task.

   • 2000, Ronald H. Chilcote, Imperialism: Theoretical Directions, page 26:

     This tends to obscure attention on real social and economic problems and to avoid a critique of capitalism itself and its weaknesses, It also interferes with the advance toward socialism; thus the discourse turns to postforms of society in order to reach idealistically toward some form of society that will not have to confront the realities of the capitalist world.

3. A form that is filled out after the completion of something.
   • 1977, Counselor education and supervision - Volumes 17-18, page 96:

     The postforms were completed six weeks after counseling was concluded.

   • 1994, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education:

     For comparability, the raw scores on the different forms (pre- and postforms) and levels of the tests were converted to standard scores.

Etymology 2

From post +‎ form.

Noun

postform (plural postforms)

1. A form that is designed to be filled out and sent through the mail.
   • 2004, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources, Cervical Cancer and Human Papillomavirus:

     If you'd like to comment on this piece please send your comments using the postform below.

   • 2005, Oliver Zöllner, Targeting international audiences:

     Send us your reasons, views and experiences using the postform.