dinner plate
Americannoun
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While a single 300 millimeter silicon wafer normally produces a few dozen chips, Cerebras uses the entire wafer for one chip, about the size of a dinner plate.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Pharmaceutical scientist Associate Professor Kamal Dua of the University of Technology Sydney estimates that adults consume about 250 grams of microplastics each year, roughly the amount needed to cover a dinner plate.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
These cores, as wide as a dinner plate, yielded hundreds of samples of ancient air—including the first ever from the Pliocene, which ended about 2.6 million years ago with the start of the ice ages.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 21, 2024
In the wild they are typically the size of a small dinner plate, and their name comes from their circular shape.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2024
Poking through the earth at the workers’ feet was something that resembled the edge of a dinner plate.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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