Look up Plate or plate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plate may refer to: Plate (dishware), a broad, mainly flat vessel commonly used to serve food...
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Plate tectonics (from Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós) 'pertaining to building') is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere...
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registration plate, also known as a number plate (British, Indian and Australian English) or license plate (American English) or licence plate (Canadian...
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A vehicle registration plate, also known as a number plate (British English), license plate or licence plate (American English and Canadian English respectively)...
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The Philippine Sea Plate or the Philippine Plate is a tectonic plate comprising oceanic lithosphere that lies beneath the Philippine Sea, to the east...
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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...
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Plate but under modified names, such as Rochester plates, junkyard plates, trash plates, hot plates, rubbish plates, sloppy plates, or messy plates....
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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...
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Vehicle registration plates (commonly referred to as "number plates" in British English) are the alphanumeric plates used to display the registration...
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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...
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A builder's plate is usually a metal plate that is attached to railway locomotives and rolling stock, bogies, construction equipment, trucks, automobiles...
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River Plate, an Argentine sports club Club Atlético River Plate (women) Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, also known as River Plate Stadium...
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African Plate, the Somali Plate, the Indo-Australian Plate, the Pacific Plate, and, across a transform boundary, the Scotia Plate. The Antarctic Plate has...
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The South American Plate is a major tectonic plate which includes the continent of South America as well as a sizable region of the Atlantic Ocean seabed...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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A spot plate, also called a reaction plate is a laboratory tool made either from ceramics or plastics. Each plate consists of many cavity-like depressions...
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Plate smashing is a Greek custom that peaked in the 60s and 70s, involving the intentional smashing of plates or glasses during celebratory occasions...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Club Atlético River Plate, commonly known as River Plate, is an Argentine professional sports club based in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires....
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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...
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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...
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Waveplate (redirect from Wave Plate)
waveplates are the half-wave plate, which rotates the polarization direction of linearly polarized light, and the quarter-wave plate, which converts between...
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Adriatic or Apulian Plate is a small tectonic plate carrying primarily continental crust that broke away from the African Plate along a large transform...
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Equirectangular projection (redirect from Plate carrée projection)
parallélogrammatique projection), and which includes the special case of the plate carrée projection (also called the geographic projection, lat/lon projection...
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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...
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