Plate
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Plate may refer to:
- Plate (dishware)
- Plate (structures), in mechanics
- A flat piece of metal used in orthopedics to connect the two parts of a broken bone, such as a dynamic compression plate
- Plate armor, body armor made of metal plates
- Plate electrode, part of a vacuum tube
- Home plate, a piece of equipment in baseball
- Photographic plate, a type of film
- Printing plate, in lithography
- A lithograph bound into a book, especially when the book is otherwise letterpress printed
- River Plate, a river in Uruguay and Argentina
- Steel plate, sheet metal in a thicker form
- Tectonic plate, in geology
- Vehicle registration plate
- A sub-class of Culture GSV
- Theoretical plate in separation processes
- Appendages of dinosaurs of the infraorders Stegosauria and Ankylosauria
- Roundel argent, in British heraldry
- Sterling silver cutlery and dishware
- Plating
- Wall plate - horizontal structural elements at the top and bottom of a wall in platform framing building construction methodology.
- Wall plates are variously described as prefaced by the words: Sill, top, bottom, ceiling, floor, or base.
- Tourelle de la Plate, a lighthouse in France,
- Club Atlético River Plate, an Argentine football club based in Buenos Aires
- Christina Plate (1965-), German actress
- Plate, Germany, a municipality in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany