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plural backplates
A plate protecting a fighting person's back. quotations examples
The cuirass of Roman muscled type is composed of an anatomically modeled breastplate and backplate, each made in one with a gorget […]
1998, Stuart W. Pyhrr et al., Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries, Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 285
(underwater diving) A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached. examples
A metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, used to cover a port or slot. examples
A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object. examples
(UK, automotive) A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake. examples
Part of a condenser microphone that sits behind the diaphragm and which acts, in conjunction with the diaphragm, as a sort of variable capacitor. examples