# postform
## English
### Etymology 1

From post- +‎ form.

#### Verb

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