Meanings
nounplaquette (plural plaquettes)
plural plaquettes
- A small metal tablet decorated in bas-relief, usually with a design including figures.
- natural sciencesThe smallest closed loop, enclosing the region between four lattice sites, in lattice gauge theory.
Origin
- Frenchplaquette“small plaque”
- Englishplaquette
Borrowed from French plaquette (“small plaque”), allegedly coined in the 1860s.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech plaketa
- plaketasmall tablet
Dutch plaquette, plaket
- plaquettesmall tablet
- plaketsmall tablet
- plaquesmall tablet
Esperanto plateto
- platetosmall tablet
German Plakette
- Plakettesmall tablet
Hungarian plakett
- plakettsmall tablet
Indonesian plaket
- plaketsmall tablet
Norwegian Bokmål plakett
- plakettsmall tablet
Polish plakieta
- plakietasmall tablet
Russian плаке́та
- плаке́та (plakéta)small tablet
Spanish plaqueta
- plaquetasmall tablet
Swedish plakett
- plakettsmall tablet
Ukrainian плаке́та
- плаке́та (plakéta)small tablet
Cite this entry
APA
plaquette. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plaquette
MLA
“plaquette.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plaquette. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “plaquette,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plaquette.
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