What does "plaquette" mean?

A small metal tablet decorated in bas-relief, usually with a design including figures.

What is a synonym for "plaquette"?

Common synonyms include: bas relief, boss, cameo, embossment, glyph, intaglio.

noun

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Noun

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.

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