Plate may refer to:

Cooking

  • Plate (dishware), broad, mainly flat vessel commonly used to serve food
  • Plates, tableware, dishes or dishware used for setting a table, serving food and dining
  • Plate, the content of such a plate (for example: rice plate)
  • Plate, to present food, on a plate
  • Plate, forequarter cut of beef

Places

  • Plate, Germany, municipality in Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
  • Plate, borough of Lüchow, Lower Saxony, Germany
  • River Plate (disambiguation)
  • Tourelle de la Plate, lighthouse in France

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

  • Plate (anatomy), several meanings
  • Dental plate, also known as dentures
  • Dynamic compression plate, metallic plate used in orthopedics to fix bone
  • Microtiter plate (or microplate or microwell plate), flat plate with multiple "wells" used as small test tubes
  • Orthopedic plate, internal fixation used in orthopaedic surgery
  • Petri dish or Petri plate, shallow dish on which biological cultures may be grown and/or viewed

Geology

  • Tectonic plate, pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere
  • Plate tectonics, the study of the movement of such plates

Physics

  • Plate, physical approximation of a theoretical plate in separation processes
  • Plate electrode, type of electrode used in vacuum tubes
  • Plate (structure), concept used in continuum mechanics as part of the plate theory
  • Plate trick, mathematical demonstration of quaternions and particle spins
  • Wilhelmy plate, used to measure tension at an interface between air and a liquid or between two liquids

Construction

  • Anchor plate, large plate connected to a tie rod or bolt for structural reinforcement
  • Sill plate, the bottom horizontal member of a wall or building to which vertical members are attached
  • Wall plate, vertical component used in building construction

Electronics

  • Anodes, electrodes used in vacuum tubes (thermionic valves) and similar devices

Printing and photography

  • Photographic plate, medium from which a photograph may be developed
  • Plate camera, early type of camera that used photographic plates
  • Printing plate, printing medium:
  • Plate, in Intaglio (printmaking), the direct opposite of a relief print
  • Plate, in lithography, method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water
  • Plate, a (part of a) "tipped-in page", separately-printed page in a book used to carry one or more images

Transportation

  • Approach plate, chart used by a pilot to perform an instrument approach and landing on a runway
  • Plate B, Plate C, ... , Plate H, loading gauges used on North American railroads

Metal plates

  • Plate (metal), rectangular flat metal stock that is more than 6 mm or 0.25 in thick, not as thin as sheet metal
  • Plate, element of a folding machine
  • Plate armour, body armor made from metal plates
  • Vehicle registration plate (license plate), sign attached to a vehicle in order to identify it
  • L-plate (learner plate), sign attached to a vehicle to indicate that the driver has a provisional driving license
  • Plated, item with a deposition of metallic layers

Sport

  • Home plate, location on a baseball field
  • Several trophies, e.g.,
  • Annapolis Subscription Plate, in horse racing
  • County Championship Plate, in rugby union
  • Mandela Challenge Plate, in rugby union
  • Weight plate, flat, heavy object, usually made of iron, used in strength training or weightlifting

Other uses

  • Plate (surname)
  • Plate, in heraldry, Roundel argent (white/silver)

See also

  • Basal plate (disambiguation)
  • Faceplate (disambiguation)
  • Home plate (disambiguation)
  • Plat (disambiguation)