a joist forming the lowest member of a timber frame
Also called: groundsill, soleplate
ground plate in American English
noun
1. Electricity
a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth
2. Building
groundsill
Word origin
[1655–65]This word is first recorded in the period 1655–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: chassis, disk, minimum, organism, outline
Examples of 'ground plate' in a sentence
ground plate
The geometries include a cluster of spherical/cylindrical conducting particles uniformly distributed and simultaneously in contact with the ground plate.
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