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quartz plate
noun
- a carefully cut quartz crystal that is piezoelectrically active. Compare crystal ( def 10 ).
Example Sentences
The company makes photomasks, a kind of quartz plate used in electronics, including flat panel displays.
Eye-piece 0, with Bertrand's quartered quartz plate.
While he talked, Ishie had been busy inserting the carefully machined piece of quartz plate that Chernov had brought, into a conglomeration of glassware that looked like a refugee from the chem lab, and flipped a switch that caused a glowing coil inside a pyrex boiler to heat a small quantity of water, which must escape through the carefully machined capillary holes in the plate he had just installed.
The color changing device, consisting of Nicol prism and quartz plate, is fitted with a divided circle reading to single degrees.
Some, for example, have their scales based upon the displacement of the polarized ray produced by a quartz plate of a certain thickness; others upon the displacement produced by an arbitrary quantity of pure sucrose, dissolved and made up to a certain volume and polarized in a certain definite length of column.
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