plaque

plaque · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    A flat tablet or plate of metal, stone, or wood fixed to a wall or surface to commemorate a person or event.

  2. 2.

    A sticky deposit on teeth where bacteria multiply.

  3. 3.

    (medicine) A deposit of fatty material on the inner wall of an artery.

  4. 4.

    (medicine) A flat, often raised, patch or lesion on the skin or other tissue.

Forms

plural: plaques

Related words

See also: memorial, tablet, tartar
Synonyms: marker, plate, tablet

Etymology

From French plaque ("plate, slab"), from Dutch plak ("flat disk"), from plakken ("to patch").