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• Floor plate — Infobox Embryology Name = PAGENAME Latin = GraySubject = GrayPage = Caption = The floor plate separates the left and right basal plates of the developing neural tube. Width = 200 Caption2 = System = Nervous system CarnegieStage = Precursor =… …   Wikipedia

• floor plate — noun 1. : a plate (as of steel or iron) set in or forming part of a floor and sometimes provided with T slots to which heavy work and portable machine tools can be bolted to facilitate machining and erection 2. : a wooden board lying flat on the… …   Useful english dictionary

• floor plate — the unpaired ventral longitudinal zone of the neural tube, forming the floor of that tube; called also ventral p. and bodenplatte …   Medical dictionary

• plate tectonics — plate tectonic, adj. Geol. a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past… …   Universalium

• Plate — may refer to: * Plate (dishware) * Plate (structures), a type of foundation * A flat piece of metal used in orthopedics to connect the two parts of a broken bone, such as a dynamic compression plate * Plate armor, body armor made of metal plates… …   Wikipedia

• Plate tectonics — The tectonic plates of the world were mapped in the second half of the 20th century …   Wikipedia

• plate — 1. [TA] In anatomy, a thin, relative flat, structure. SYN: lamina [TA]. 2. A metal bar perforated for screws applied to a fractured bone to maintain the ends in apposition. 3. The agar layer within a Petri dish or similar …   Medical dictionary

• floor covering — Finish material on floors, including wood strips, parquet, linoleum, vinyl, asphalt tile, rubber, cork, epoxy resins, ceramic tile, and carpeting. Wood strip flooring, attached to a subfloor of plywood, is most popular, especially for residences …   Universalium

• plate tectonics — /pleɪt tɛkˈtɒnɪks/ (say playt tek toniks) noun a theory concerning the movements of the earth s lithosphere that explains how tectonic plates ride on the moving asthenosphere; supporting the theory of continental drift and sea floor spreading.… …  

• floor — [1] The flat base panel of a vehicle. [2] A verb meaning to push the accelerator as far as it will go (i.e., to the floor). [3] The vertical transverse plate immediately above the bottom shell plating, often located at every frame, extending from …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• plate-(piston)-type caldera — GLOSSARY OF VOLCANIC TERMS A type of caldera in which the caldera floor subsides more or less evenly as one coherent block. Plate (piston) type calderas are believed to result from single, large volume pyroclastic eruptions from relatively… …   Glossary of volcanic terms