backplate.
A plate protecting a fighting person's back.
Meaning & usage
A plate protecting a fighting person's back.
A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.
The metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, where the ports are found.
A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object.
A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.
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.