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Plates: Early photographic glass plates coated with emulsion.

Tectonic Plates: Segments of the lithosphere that comprise the surface of the Earth much the way a turtle shell is composed of its plates.

Dry Plates: Term used to describe gelatin coated plates in the days when wet collodion process was still popular.

Antiscreen Plates: Photographic plates containing dyes that reduce the blue sensitivity. Used unfiltered, they can give results similar to those obtained with yellow filtered orthochromatic plates.

Sieve Plates: Pores in the end walls of sieve elements that connect the sieve elements together. The end walls of sieve tube cells that are perforated (sieves).

Clutch: Pressure situation; a player that responds well to pressure.

Transform Fault: A strike-slip fault connecting the ends of an offset in a mid-ocean ridge. Some pairs of plates slide past each other along transform faults.

Dzus Fastener: ('Zoose') Very singular to aircraft, a patented slotted screw that binds to a wire for fast release and securing of cowlings and inspection plates, requiring no special tool other than a qua . . . View Full Definition

Triple Junction: A point that is common to three plates and which must also be the meeting place of three boundary features, such as divergence zones, convergence zones, or transform faults.

Sea-Floor Spreading: The horizontal movement of oceanic crust