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dinner plate

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noun

dinner plates plural
  1. a plate for holding an individual serving of the main course of a meal.


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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

But a first-class dinner plate is made of more delicate china.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2024

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

But he did look pleased that she had already set his dinner plate, on a clean sofrah spread on the living-room floor.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

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