Plate

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Plate may refer to:

• Plate (dishware), a broad, mainly flat vessel commonly used to serve food.
• Silver (household), dishware and cutlery made of plate silver.
• Plating, the deposition of metallic layers.

Science

• Plate electrode, a type of electrode used in vacuum tubes.
• Petri plate, a shallow dish on which biological cultures may be grown and/or viewed.
• Tectonic plate in geology.
  • Plate tectonics, the study of the movement of such plates.
• Wilhelmy plate, used to measure tension at an interface between air and a liquid or between two liquids.
• A physical approximation of a theoretical plate in separation processes.
• An appendage of the Stegosauria group of dinosaurs.

Printing and photography

• Photographic plate, a medium from which a photograph may be developed.
• A printing medium:
  • in intaglio.
  • in lithography.
• An alternative term for a (part of a) "tipped-in page", a page in a book used to carry one or more images rather than text.

Other uses

• Plate (metal), rectangular metal stock that is more than 6 mm or 0.25 in thick.
• Plate (surname).
• Plate, Germany, a municipality in Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
• Approach plate, a chart used by a pilot to perform an instrument approach and landing on a runway.
• Dynamic compression plate, a metallic plate used in orthopedics to fix bone.
• Home plate, a location on a baseball field.
• L-plate (learner plate), a sign attached to a vehicle to indicate that the driver has a provisional driving license.
• Service-specific front plate, a faceplate used in British telecommunications sockets.
• Vehicle registration plate (license plate), a sign attached to a vehicle in order to identify it.
• Wall plate, a vertical component used in building construction.
• A forequarter cut of beef.
• A weight of, typically, 45 lbs (20 kg) in Olympic weightlifting.
• An element of a folding machine.
• To present food on a plate.

See also

• All pages beginning with "Plate"
• All pages with titles containing "Plate"
• Plate armour, body armor made from metal plates.
• Plate camera, an early type of camera that used photographic plates.
• Plate theory, a theory used in continuum mechanics to explain thin solids.
• Faceplate (disambiguation).
• River Plate (disambiguation).
• Tourelle de la Plate, a lighthouse in France.

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