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What is a plaquette?

What is a plaquette? Here are some definitions.

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  1. A small metal tablet decorated in bas-relief, usually with a design including figures.
  2. (physics) The smallest closed loop, enclosing the region between four lattice sites, in lattice gauge theory.
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Like the small bells seen on the roofs of Romanian country dwellings until the beginning of the 20th century, those bells have a clapper provided with a feather or plaquette that enables the wind to ring them continually.
The use of pottery here is only suggested by a fragment of a short, toothed object, on a plaquette of chloritic schist.

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