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Definition of Charge plate
1. Noun. A card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered. "Do you take plastic?"
Terms within: Magnetic Stripe
Generic synonyms: Positive Identification, Charge Account Credit, Open-end Credit, Revolving Credit
Specialized synonyms: Bank Card, Calling Card, Phone Card, Cash Card, Cashcard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Charge Plate
Literary usage of Charge plate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1884)
"A heap of the fulminate is placed upon the bed-plate, convenient to the charge-plate.
A pieceof stout paper is laid upon the bed-plate, ..."
2. Telegraphy by William Henry Preece, James Sivewright (1891)
"The following symbols fairly represent the chemical changes : (1) Before charge—
Plate Plate PbSO4, ... H.,SO4, 2H2 (3) And after charge— Plate Plate Pb02, ..."
3. The Metallurgy of the Common Metals, Gold, Silver, Iron, Copper, Lead and Zinc by Leonard Strong Austin (1907)
"The materials of the charge weighed in a charge-car or buggy, are terials of the
charge, weighed in a charge-car or buggy, are dumped on the charge plate at ..."
4. A First Course in Laboratory Physics for Secondary Schools by Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale, Edwin Sherwood Bishop (1914)
"Support this on two pieces of sealing wax. charge plate A by giving it a single
stroke with a small piece of electrified sealing wax. ..."
5. The Official History of the Three Hundred and Fourth Engineer Regiment by Army, 304th Engineer Regiment, United States (1920)
"... whether more than that depends on the judgment of the engineer in charge.
Plate 6 shows the location of the chamber and the charges to give the maximum ..."
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