Meaning

2 senses
  1. A small metal tablet decorated in bas-relief, usually with a design including figures.

    Plakette

    плаке́таplakéta

    плаке́таplakéta

  2. The smallest closed loop, enclosing the region between four lattice sites, in lattice gauge theory.

Translations

5 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Origin

Borrowed from French plaquette (“small plaque”), allegedly coined in the 1860s.

Borrowed from French plaquette (“small plaque”), allegedly coined in the 1860s.

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Forms

plural: plaquettes
Singularplaquette
Pluralplaquettes

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
plaquette — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto