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Plaquette

noun

Definitions

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

Etymology

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

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