photographic plate

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   a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded

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Questions about photographic plate

What does photographic plate mean?

photographic plate means "a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded".

What is another word for photographic plate?

Close synonyms include plate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is photographic plate a common word?

photographic plate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.