Backplate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Backplate is a noun meaning A plate protecting a fighting person's back.
Meaning
A plate protecting a fighting person's back.
More Meanings
- (underwater diving) A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.
- The metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, where the ports are found.
- A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object.
- (UK, automotive) A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.
- Part of a condenser microphone that sits behind the diaphragm and which acts, in conjunction with the diaphragm, as a sort of variable capacitor.
Example Sentences
The cuirass of Roman muscled type is composed of an anatomically modeled breastplate and backplate, each made in one with a gorget […]
Word Forms
- backplates
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include backpiece, bodyplate, chestplate, plate, breastplate, placard.
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