quarter plate

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   a photographic plate measuring 3.25 inches by 4.25 inches

   Broaderplate

Questions about quarter plate

What does quarter plate mean?

quarter plate means "a photographic plate measuring 3.25 inches by 4.25 inches".

Is quarter plate a common word?

quarter 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.