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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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The rare items, which have been loaned by the Royal Navy Museum, include a bowl and dinner plate, a boot and belt buckle and an ointment pot.

From BBC May 26, 2026

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

I nod, grab a knife and cut an enormous slice, a quarter of the pan practically, and put it on a dinner plate.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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