and dining Plate, the content of such a plate (for example: rice plate) Plate, to present food, on a plate Plate, forequarter cut of beef Plate, Germany...

Plate tectonics (from Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós) 'pertaining to building') is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere...

registration plate, also known as a number plate (British, Indian and Australian English) or license plate (American English) or licence plate (Canadian...

Hartog Plate or Dirk Hartog's Plate is either of two pewter plates, although primarily the first, which were left on Dirk Hartog Island on the western...

A weight plate is a flat, heavy object, usually made of cast iron, that is used in combination with barbells or dumbbells to produce a bar with a desired...

River Plate, an Argentine sports club Club Atlético River Plate (women) Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, also known as River Plate Stadium...

The epiphyseal plate, epiphysial plate, physis, or growth plate is a hyaline cartilage plate in the metaphysis at each end of a long bone. It is the part...

A sill plate or sole plate in construction and architecture is the bottom horizontal member of a wall or building to which vertical members are attached...

Plate but under modified names, such as Rochester plates, junkyard plates, trash plates, hot plates, rubbish plates, sloppy plates, or messy plates....

A vehicle registration plate, also known as a number plate (British English), license plate or licence plate (American English and Canadian English respectively)...

A builder's plate is usually a metal plate that is attached to railway locomotives and rolling stock, bogies, construction equipment, trucks, automobiles...

A plate in animal anatomy may refer to several things: an appendage of the Stegosauria group of dinosaurs articulated armoured plates covering the head...

Pacific plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean. At 103 million km2 (40 million sq mi), it is the largest tectonic plate. The...

Tread plate, also known as checker plate and diamond plate, is a type of metal stock with a regular pattern or lines on one side for slip resistance. The...

The Eurasian plate is a tectonic plate that includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and...

The Philippine Sea plate or the Philippine plate is a tectonic plate comprising oceanic lithosphere that lies beneath the Philippine Sea, to the east...

Plate smashing is a Greek custom that peaked in the 60s and 70s, involving the intentional smashing of plates or glasses during celebratory occasions...

Beef plate (also known as the short plate) is a forequarter cut from the abdomen of the cow, just below the rib cut. It is typically a cheap, tough, and...

Vehicle registration plates (commonly referred to as "number plates" in British English) are the alphanumeric plates used to display the registration...

The Nazca plate or Nasca plate, named after the Nazca region of southern Peru, is an oceanic tectonic plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean basin off the...

Plate spinning is a circus manipulation art where a person spins plates, bowls and other flat objects on poles, without them falling off. Plate spinning...

Plate armour is a historical type of personal body armour made from bronze, iron, or steel plates, culminating in the iconic suit of armour entirely encasing...

The African plate, also known as the Nubian plate, is a major tectonic plate that includes much of the continent of Africa (except for its easternmost...

The Arabian plate is a minor tectonic plate in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres. It is one of the three continental plates (along with the African...

Adriatic or Apulian plate is a small tectonic plate carrying primarily continental crust that broke away from the African plate along a large transform...

African Plate, the Somali Plate, the Indo-Australian Plate, the Pacific Plate, and, across a transform boundary, the Scotia Plate. The Antarctic Plate has...

waveplates are the half-wave plate, which rotates the polarization direction of linearly polarized light, and the quarter-wave plate, which converts between...

parallélogrammatique projection), and which includes the special case of the plate carrée projection (also called the geographic projection, lat/lon projection...

In the United States, vehicle registration plates, known as license plates, are issued by a department of motor vehicles, an agency of the state or territorial...

In printing, a key plate is the plate which prints the detail in an image.[better source needed] When printing color images by combining multiple colors...