plaquette
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French plaquette (“small plaque”), allegedly coined in the 1860s.
Noun[edit]
plaquette (plural plaquettes)
- A small metal tablet decorated in bas-relief, usually with a design including figures.
- (physics) The smallest closed loop, enclosing the region between four lattice sites, in lattice gauge theory.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
plaquette f (plural plaquettes)
- packet (of butter); strip, blister pack (of pills)
- (hematology, cytology) platelet
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Catalan: plaqueta
- → English: plaquette
- → Italian: plaquette
- → Portuguese: plaqueta
- → Spanish: plaqueta
- → Turkish: plaket
Further reading[edit]
- “plaquette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French plaquette (“small plaque”).
Noun[edit]
plaquette f (invariable)
- booklet, pamphlet
- Synonym: opuscolo
- a small commemorative plaque
- Synonyms: targhetta commemorativa, piccola targa commemorativa
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- fr:Hematology
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- Italian terms borrowed from French
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