plate glass

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   glass formed into large thin sheets

   Synonymssheet glass

   Broadersheet

   Narrowercover glasspaneslide

Questions about plate glass

What does plate glass mean?

plate glass means "glass formed into large thin sheets".

What is another word for plate glass?

Close synonyms include sheet glass. 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 plate glass a common word?

plate glass 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.