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surface plate
noun
- Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of surface plate1
First recorded in 1840–50
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Example Sentences
Prepare surface plate culture of the organism to be cultivated.
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Holding the piece of spleen in the forceps, dab the cut surface on to a surface plate in a number of different spots.
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Make cultivations, tube and surface plate, and cover-slip preparations from this situation.
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To determine this a surface plate, as it is called, is needed.
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Its weak point was the liability of the surface plate to crack through under fire and become detached from its iron backing.
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