Perspex
pronunciation
How to pronounce Perspex in British English:
UK [ˈpɜ:speks]
How to pronounce Perspex in American English:
US [ˈpɜrspeks]
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- Noun:
- a transparent thermoplastic acrylic resin
Word Origin
- Perspex
- 1935, trade name in Britain for what in the U.S. is called Plexiglas or Lucite, irregularly formed from Latin perspect-, past participle stem of perspicere "look through, look closely at" (see perspective).
Example
- 1. The world 's most elastic woman , skye broberg from australia , climbed into a tiny square perspex box .
- 2. Structure , properties and uses of addition polymers as illustrated by polyethene , polypropene , polyvinyl chloride , polystyrene and perspex .
- 3. Perspex lenses have long since been replaced by acrylic ones .
- 4. In fact , if the experience of david blaine is anything to go by , you 'd have to quickly move that perspex box to somewhere impossibly high up , where people can 't pelt it with golf balls and tangerines .
- 5. The accelerated equivalence was provided correctly and precisely with the data of yb | 2 perspex aged naturally in hainan and serving in flight in the south district .