plaquette

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plaquette

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Borrowed from French plaquette (“small plaque”), allegedly coined in the 1860s.

noun plaquettes

  1. A small metal tablet decorated in bas-relief, usually with a design including figures.
  2. The smallest closed loop, enclosing the region between four lattice sites, in lattice gauge theory.

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noun small tablet

Españolplaqueta
DeutschPlakette
Русскийплаке́та plakéta

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"plaquette." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/plaquette. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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plaquette. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/plaquette

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"plaquette." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/plaquette.

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@misc{plaquette_2026,
  title = {plaquette},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/plaquette},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}