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backplate.

A plate protecting a fighting person's back.

9 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A plate protecting a fighting person's back.

  2. A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.

  3. The metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, where the ports are found.

  4. A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object.

  5. A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.

    UK
  6. Part of a condenser microphone that sits behind the diaphragm and which acts, in conjunction with the diaphragm, as a sort of variable capacitor.

Where this word comes from

From back + plate.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.