As nouns the difference between plating and preplating
is that plating is an act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet while preplating is plating in advance of another process.
As a verb plating
is present participle of lang=en.
plating
English
Verb
(head)
Noun
(
en noun)
(philately) An act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet.
A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.
A coating or defensive armour of metal plates.
preplating
English
Alternative forms
*pre-plating
Noun
(-)
plating in advance of another process