プレート
Meanings
Noun
1. plate (e.g. nameplate, license plate)
2. plate (dish)
3. (tectonic) plate
4. (home) plate; pitcher's mound
5. plate
6. plate
7. plate (of a vacuum tube); anode
Examples2
この
We call these slabs of the solid-rock layer 'plates'.
近年
In recent years, with a method called VLBI that uses quasar observations, and by GPS we have begun to understand the absolute movement of tectonic plates.