<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A thin, flat plate or tablet of metal, porcelain, etc., intended for ornament, as on a wall, or set in a piece of furniture.</li><li>An inscribed commemorative tablet, usually of metal, placed on a building, monument, or the like.</li><li>A platelike brooch or ornament, especially one worn as the badge of an honorary order.</li><li>Anatomy, Pathology: A flat, often raised, patch on the skin or other organ, as on the inner lining of arterial walls in atherosclerosis.</li><li>Dentistry: A soft, sticky, whitish matlike film attached to tooth surfaces, formed largely by the growth of bacteria that colonize the teeth.</li><li>Bacteriology: A cleared region in a bacterial culture, resulting from lysis of bacteria by bacteriophages.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>