MEANING
To shape a material, commonly a thermoplastic sheet, after heating it until it can be formed.
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Words that belong together
- thermoform a sheet
- a thermoformed housing
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The housing had been thermoformed to fit the instrument’s irregular outline.
They thermoformed the replacement sheet after verifying the material specification.
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Word forms
- Base
- thermoform
- Past tense
- thermoformed
- Past participle
- thermoformed
- Present participle
- thermoforming
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- thermoform
- Present continuous
- am/is/are thermoforming
- Present perfect
- have/has thermoformed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been thermoforming
- Past
- thermoformed
- Past continuous
- was/were thermoforming
- Past perfect
- had thermoformed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been thermoforming
- Future
- will thermoform
- Future continuous
- will be thermoforming
- Future perfect
- will have thermoformed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been thermoforming
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: thermoform; thermoforms; thermoformed; thermoformed; thermoforming Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: thermoforms.
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