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floor plate

floor plate is the alternative form of floorplate.

Meaning of floorplate

Noun

floorplate (plural floorplates)

  1. A (usually metal) plate used as industrial flooring.
  2. A horizontal, structural, load-bearing member in platform framing (wooden building framing). Also called bottom plate, sill plate, sole plate or (lower) wall plate.
  3. The structural base plate of the floors (storeys) of a building, usually made up of bottom panels, floor panels, floor slabs, paving slabs, hollow core slabs or beams or joists in timber constructions.
    • In that new building, which has large 40,000-square-foot floorplates, some of the large tenants may want to be assured of an option to grow.2007 July 25, Alison Gregor, “Serving Small Tenants With Offices Cut Down to Size”, in New York Times
  4. A specialized glial structure integral to the developing nervous system of vertebrate organisms.

Forms of floor plate

pluralfloor plates

Questions about floor plate

What is floor plate the alternative form of?
Floor plate is the alternative form of floorplate.

Words near floor plate in the dictionary

  1. floor pillow
  2. floor pillows
  3. floor plan
  4. floor plan lending
  5. floor plans
  6. floor plate
  7. floor puzzle
  8. floor puzzles
  9. floor show
  10. floor shows
  11. floor space

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Adapted from Wiktionary: floor plate (page history and authors); floorplate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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