English Explanatory Dictionary

plaquette

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small metal tablet decorated in bas-relief, usually with a design including figures.
  2. The smallest closed loop, enclosing the region between four lattice sites, in lattice gauge theory.

Word forms

plaquette plaquettes

Etymology

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

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