Associations to the word «Backplate»

Wiktionary

BACKPLATE, noun. A plate protecting a fighting person's back.
BACKPLATE, noun. (diving) A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.
BACKPLATE, noun. A metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, used to cover a port or slot.
BACKPLATE, noun. A wood or metal plate that serves as a backing for an object.
BACKPLATE, noun. (UK) (automotive) A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.
BACKPLATE, noun. Part of a condenser microphone that sits behind the diaphragm and which acts, in conjunction with the diaphragm, as a sort of variable capacitor.

Dictionary definition

BACKPLATE, noun. Plate armor protecting the back; worn as part of a cuirass.

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley