1. A shoe or base member, such as of a partition or other kind of frame.

2. The top horizontal member of a row of studs used in a frame wall.

A rolled, flat piece of metal of some arbitrary minimum thickness and width depending on the type of metal.

1. One of the conducting surfaces in a capacitor.

2. One of the electrodes in a storage battery.

See <<anode>>

1. A smooth, thin, flat fragment of rock, such as a flagstone.

2. A large rigid, but mobile, block involved in plate tectonics; thickness ranges from 30 to 150 miles (50 to 250 kilometers) and includes both crust and a portion of the upper mantle.

1. In etching, the piece of copper, zinc, or other metal that constitutes the base from which prints are made.

2. In photography, a sheet of glass coated with a sensitized emulsion.

3. In printing, the reproduction of type or cuts in metal or other material; a plate may bear a relief, intaglio, or planographic printing surface.

A thick flat particle of metal powder.