endplate
Britishnoun
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any usually flat platelike structure at the end of something
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physiol the flattened end of a motor nerve fibre, which transmits impulses to muscle
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Norris touched the Red Bull, damaging the McLaren's front wing endplate, and that bounced him side-on into Piastri, whose momentum was checked, allowing Norris to move ahead into third place.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2025
The debris was Verstappen's front wing endplate but its loss seemed not to slow him down.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2023
Finally, because porous endplates allow new nerves to grow into the endplate bone, causing sensitivity, the authors looked at whether senescent osteoclasts play a role in this process.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2023
In doing so, it resulted in contact between the two for the first time, with Rosberg’s right front-wing endplate clipping Hamilton’s left-rear tyre.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2014
This, it had been known, acts on an "endplate" in the muscle.
From Time Magazine Archive
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