backplate (English, noun)
expansion: backplate (plural backplates)
Senses:
glosses: A plate protecting a fighting person's back.
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.
glosses: The metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, where the ports are found.
glosses: A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.
tags: UK
glosses: Part of a condenser microphone that sits behind the diaphragm and which acts, in conjunction with the diaphragm, as a sort of variable capacitor.
Forms:
form: backplates
tags: plural