Caribbean Plate

noun

, Geology.

1. a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, encompassing the Central American portion of North America, the Caribbean Sea, and the islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico, as well as the Leeward and Windward Islands; bordered north and south by the North and South American Plates and west by the Cocos Plate.

Example Sentences

And Haiti sits near the intersection of two of them - the North American plate and the Caribbean plate.

From Washington Times

And Haiti sits near the intersection of two of them — the North American plate and the Caribbean plate.

From Seattle Times

And Haiti sits near the intersection of two of them — the North American plate and the Caribbean plate.

From Seattle Times

His childhood trauma in Kingston did not guide his decision-making at Caribbean Plate, his sunny restaurant in the corner of a Falls Church strip center that, in the midafternoon sun, looks like a two-story structure built from Jamaican sand.

From Washington Post

To be honest, I had looked right past the jerk pork on every visit to Caribbean Plate, save for my last one.

From Washington Post