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zone plates

zone plates is the plural of zone plate.

Meaning of zone plate

Noun

zone plate (plural zone plates)

  1. A Fresnel zone plate.
    • And Fresnel's countryman, Laurent Koechlin, of the Midi-Pyrénées observatory, thinks zone plates are the way to find out if there is life on other planets.2012 June 9, “Twinkle, twinkle, little planet”, in The Economist

Questions about zone plates

What is zone plates the plural of?
Zone plates is the plural of zone plate.

Words near zone plates in the dictionary

  1. zone off
  2. zone out
  3. zone picking
  4. zone pickings
  5. zone plate
  6. zone plates
  7. zone punch
  8. zone punches
  9. zone refining
  10. zone time
  11. zone times

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