Plate

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Plate generally refers to a thin, large and flat non-flexible sheet.

Plate may also refer to:

• Plate, in mechanics is a flat structural element only carrying point or distributed loads normal to its plane. Additionally it can transmit bending moments about axes lying in its plane.
• Plate electrode, a type of electrode cool that formed part of a vacuum tube
• Tectonic plate, in geology, a piece of the Earth's crust featured in plate tectonics, a theory of geology developed to explain the phenomenon of continental drift
• Plate (dishware), an item of dishware
• Plate is a mainly British , mainly antiquated term for sterling silver cutlery and dishware
• In British heraldry, a plate is a roundel argent
• Home plate, a piece of equipment in baseball
• Vehicle registration plate, a small metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle for official identification purposes
• Plate such as steel plate is sheet metal in a thicker form, such as is used for boilermaking or shipbuilding. The footplate of a steam locomotive was made of such plate. Its thickness starts at about 6 mm or 1/4 inch (See also Structural steel)
• Plate armor is body armor made of metal plates.
• Photographic plate, an early type of photographic film
• Printing plate, a plate used in lithographic printing, see also block printing
• In fluid dynamics, flow over a flat plate refers to fluid flowing over a flat plate and the study of the viscous forces that arise
• Bony appendages embedded in the skin of dinosaurs of the infraorder Stegosauria and of some of the Ankylosauria.

See also Plat (onomastics)

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