"egg-crating" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1952, Light and Lighting and Environmental Design",
          "text": "The soffit over the windows and arcade is of uninterrupted egg-crating.",
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          "ref": "1953, American Lumberman & Building Products Merchandiser",
          "text": "Spotlights in egg-crating over counters give dramatic emphasis to cabinets at night.",
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          "ref": "1961, Bromeliad Society, Bulletin - Volumes 11-15, page 46",
          "text": "For the egg-crating, 2x4's proved adequate, as likely they would have for the wall railing; but greater leaway [sic] was provided and proved fortunate since there was a slight pitch from the house roof to the wall.",
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          "text": "These little plants that I top-water sit on egg-crating which is atop a capillary mat.",
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          "ref": "2002, African Violet Magazine - Volume 55, page 50",
          "text": "Matting offers the same type of benefit, as does egg-crating.",
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          "text": "While the hull of the Viking 57 is still curing in the mold, about two weeks into the boat building schedule, workmen install the engine compartment bulkheads and the \"egg-crating\" members, the interlocked wooden framework running fore-and-aft and athwartships.",
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          "ref": "2002, African Violet Magazine - Volume 55, page 50",
          "text": "Matting offers the same type of benefit, as does egg-crating.",
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