backplate
nounEtymology From back + plate.
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 […]1998, Stuart W. Pyhrr et al., Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 285:
2
Diving, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports, Underwater diving A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.
3
The metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, where the ports are found.
4
A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object.
5
Automotive, Transport, Vehicles UK A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.
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.
- Derived terms
- backplated