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plaquette

plaquette noun: a small metal tablet decorated in bas-relief, usually with a design including figures.

Noun

plaquette (plural plaquettes)

  1. A small metal tablet decorated in bas-relief, usually with a design including figures.
  2. The smallest closed loop, enclosing the region between four lattice sites, in lattice gauge theory.

plaquette meaning in Indonesian

plaquette in Indonesian

small tablet
plaket

Forms of plaquette

pluralplaquettes

Origin of plaquette

Borrowed from French plaquette (“small plaque”), allegedly coined in the 1860s.

Questions about plaquette

What does plaquette mean?
Plaquette means a small metal tablet decorated in bas-relief, usually with a design including figures.
What is plaquette in Indonesian?
Plaquette in Indonesian is plaket. See Plaquette meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is plaquette?
Plaquette is a noun.
What is the plural of plaquette?
The plural of plaquette is plaquettes.

Words near plaquette in the dictionary

  1. Plaquemines Parish
  2. plaquenil
  3. plaques
  4. plaquet
  5. plaquets
  6. plaquette
  7. plaquettes
  8. plaquing
  9. PLARF
  10. Plaridel
  11. plarn

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