0 a flat, usually round dish with a slightly raised edge that you eat from or serve food from: --
1 a flat piece of something that is hard and does not bend: --
2 a picture, especially in colour, in a book: --
3 informal for home plate --
5 to cover a metal object with a thin layer of another metal, especially gold or silver: --
Mountains, molecules, and tectonic plates, for example, exist and would exist if there had never been any humans or animals.
Batteries are housed in the end cap, and these supply heaters that warm heater plates in the oil chamber.
The limestones are pure calcarenites lacking siliciclastic detritus and containing a distinctive fossil assemblage of crinoid plates, algal grains, corals, ammonoids, brachiopods and fusulinids.
The ilmenite grains generally form dendritic plates (arrowed) in contrast to the euhedral orthopyroxene grains.
The moving ampoule blow against metal plates created the impulse acceleration.
The wells in each of the 3 types of plates were filled with approximately 15 ml of distilled water.
Worms, transferred to microtitre plates using insect pins, were placed individually in the bottom of a well containing 200 l of water.
The plates were incubated at room temperature for 60 min and washed before a substrate solution was added.