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noun

Mining. one of the shorter members of a set.Compare wall plate (def. 3).

Cell Biology. a specialized area on the surface of a muscle fiber where a motor neuron makes contact with the muscle, consisting of an irregularly shaped trough into which the terminal portion of the axon fits.

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Origin of end plate

First recorded in 1875–80

Words nearby end plate

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How to use end plate in a sentence

Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
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In the end, the clarity that comes from moments of horror can help us recommit to deeper principles.
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In the end, I find it never fails to modernize even the most dramatic things.
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Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."
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This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.
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I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
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On to Gaba Tepe just in time to see the opening, the climax and the end of the dreaded Turkish counter attack.
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He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.
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Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden
She stood, in her young purity, at one end of the chain of years, and Mrs. Chepstow—did she really stand at the other?
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British Dictionary definitions for end plate

endplate

/ (ˈɛndˌpleɪt) /

noun

any usually flat platelike structure at the end of something

physiol the flattened end of a motor nerve fibre, which transmits impulses to muscle

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Medical definitions for end plate

end plate

The area of synaptic contact between a motor nerve and a muscle fiber.