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.
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.
2. A flat surface, usually black and sometimes incorporating the use of mirrors or transparent covers, used to collect solar energy.
The Auto-ID Center promoted the concept as a way to simplify the tag and reduce the cost.
2. The dynamics of plate movements.
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.
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.
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.