English Dictionary

backplate

noun

A plate protecting a fighting person's back. / (underwater diving) A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.

He wore a backplate to protect his back during the battle.

意味（1）

A plate protecting a fighting person's back.

The cuirass of Roman muscled type is composed of an anatomically modeled breastplate and backplate, each made in one with a gorget […]

意味（2）

(underwater diving) A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.

意味（3）

A metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, used to cover a port or slot.

意味（4）

A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object.

意味（5）

(UK, automotive) A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.

意味（6）

Part of a condenser microphone that sits behind the diaphragm and which acts, in conjunction with the diaphragm, as a sort of variable capacitor.