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grating
has definitions from the fields of physics,optics
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[ noun ] a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
Synonyms Used in print (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)The debris of his other careers was piled everywhere ; a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window_sill , vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting_out into the air , masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass_through a whole house , visible all_the_way up through wire gratings on each floor . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)It squatted low and square upon the sidewalk with a heavy iron grating supporting a glass facade . |
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[ noun ] (physics,optics) optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum
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