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plait, plait, plate, pleat
plait (PLAYT, PLAT) (noun)
A braid or pigtail: Bonita's plait of hair was dark, heavy, and it was hanging down her back.
plait (PLAYT, PLAT) (verb)
To braid: Sallie decided to plait her hair with colored ribbons.
plate (PLAYT) (noun)
1. A flat and usually round dish which is used for eating or serving food: Mark had a full plate of meat and vegetables so he didn't need to have any second servings.
2. A table setting or cutlery that is made by the process of chemically or electronically bonding a thin layer of a valuable metal onto a less valuable base metal: The host set the table with the old family plate.
3. Any of large movable segments of the earth's surface that shift during an earthquake: The seismologist studied the plate in the temblor-prone area of the desert.
4. The dish which is passed among people for collections, often in a religious context: The ushers passed the plate for contributions to support the church fund.
pleat (PLEET) (noun)
A fold in a piece of material, often cloth, made by doubling the material over itself: The seamstress made a pleat in the belt on the coat so it would hang in an attractive style.
pleat (PLEET) (verb)
To create a fold: Mrs. Smart wanted to pleat the curtains carefully before hanging them up again.

When the female potter works, she keeps her plait of hair tied up so it won't get caught on the potter’s wheel. In fact, Karin has been making a large plate with a pleat style crimping of the edge.

plate
This entry is located in the following unit: platy-, plat-, platino-, platt- (page 1)
(Latin: thin plate)
(Greek > Latin: disk; round plate thrown in athletic competitions; used primarily in the extended sense of "something shaped like a round plate")
(Greek: to drive, strike, beat out; general application is "beaten metal, metal plate")
(Latin: thin plate or layer)
(Latin: thin plate or layer; the neurophysis of a vertebra)
(Greek > Latin: ankle, tarsal plate of the eyelid; from Greek tarsos, frame of wickerwork; broad, flat surface, as also in tarsos podos, the flat of the foot, instep of the foot; the edge of the eyelid)
Word Entries containing the term: “plate
absorber plate (s) (noun)
1. A metal sheet in a flat plate solar collector whose primary function is to maximize the transfer of solar radiation reaching it through the glazing to the heat transfer fluid.
2. A flat surface, usually black and sometimes incorporating the use of mirrors or transparent covers, used to collect solar energy.
This entry is located in the following units: platy-, plat-, platino-, platt- (page 1) sorb-, sorpt- + (page 2)
amalgamation table, amalgamation plate (s) (noun); amalgamation tables, amalgamation plates (pl)
A flat metal surface on which mercury is spread so it will bind with gold particles as gold-bearing ore is washed over it: The miners were required to wear face masks when working near the amalgamation table because of the chemical process that was being used.
calibration plate (s) (noun), calibration plates (pl)
A glass negative that has been exposed with its emulsion side in the same position as that which is presented by the service emulsion at the time of exposure, providing a record of the distance between the camera's fiducial marks or references for comparisons or measurements.
This entry is located in the following unit: calibra-, calibr-, caliber- (page 1)
electroplaxes, electro-plate cells
Disc-shaped syncytial cells (cells that fuse with adjacent cells to form multinucleated large cells with fused cytoplasms), large numbers of which form a gelatinous substance in the electric organs of fish.
This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 77) platy-, plat-, platino-, platt- (page 1)
licence plate
This term generally applies to a simple RFID that has only a serial number that is associated with information in a database.

The Auto-ID Center promoted the concept as a way to simplify the tag and reduce the cost.

This entry is located in the following unit: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID): Definitions (page 6)
platetectonics, plate-tectonics
1. A theory that explains the global distribution of geological phenomena; such as, seismicity, volcanism, continental drift, and mountain building in terms of the formation, destruction, movement, and interaction of the earth's lithospheric plates.
2. The dynamics of plate movements.
voltage saturation, anode saturation, plate saturation, current saturation
1. In an electron tube, the valence of the anode current which does not further increase with an increase in anode voltage.

The term anode is a general term for the electrode, terminal, or element through which current enters a conductor; so called from the path the electrical current was thought to take.

2. A situation in which the anode current of an electron tube can not be further increased by increasing the anode voltage.

The electrons are then being drawn to the anode at the same rate as they are emitted from the cathode.

This entry is located in the following units: platy-, plat-, platino-, platt- (page 4) volt + (page 6)
Word Entries at Get Words containing the term: “plate
flat-plate array, flat plate array, flatplate array
A photovoltaic (PV) array that consists of non-concentrating PV modules.
This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 8)
flat-plate module, flat plate module, flatplate module
An arrangement of photovoltaic cells or material mounted on a rigid flat surface with the cells exposed freely to incoming sunlight.
This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 8)
flat-plate photovoltaics, flat plate photovoltics, flatplate photovoltaics; PV
A PV array or module that consists of nonconcentrating elements.

Flat-plate arrays and modules use direct and diffuse sunlight, but if the array is fixed in position, some portion of the direct sunlight is lost because of oblique sun-angles in relation to the array.

This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 8)
plate tectonics
A theory that unifies many of the features and characteristics of continental drift and seafloor spreading into a coherent model and has revolutionized geologists' understanding of continents, ocean basins, mountains, and earth history.

A theory that the earth's lithosphere, the crust and upper portion of the mantle, is divided into about twelve large plates and several small ones which float on and travel independently over the asthenosphere (region in the upper mantle of the earth's interior, characterized by low-density, semiplastic, or partially molten rock material chemically similar to the overlying lithosphere).

The theory revolutionized the geological sciences in the 1960's by combining the earlier idea of continental drift and the new concept of seafloor spreading into a coherent whole.

Each plate consists of rigid rock created by upwelling magma at oceanic ridges, where plates diverge. Where two plates converge, a subduction zone forms, in which one plate is forced under another and into the Earth's mantle.

The majority of the earthquakes and volcanoes on the earth's surface occur along the margins of tectonic plates. The interior of a plate moves as a rigid body, with only minor flexing, few earthquakes, and relatively little volcanic activity.

This entry is located in the following unit: Geology or Related Geological Terms + (page 6)