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- Tertiary term
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home plate
- URI
- https://nomenclature.info/nom/14983 (opens semantic view)
- Definition
- A rubber slab, of irregular pentagonal shape, measuring 17 inches (43 centimeters) at the widest point, white in color usually with a black band around the edge, with metallic stakes fixed to the base and placed at one corner of the infield. Set solidly into ground and used as the fourth base of the diamond a player must touch to score one point. Also used to mark the lateral limits of the striking zone when the batter is in position.
- Definition source(s)
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- American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), and Canadian Heritage Information Network / Réseau canadien d’information sur le patrimoine. 2018. “Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging / Nomenclature pour le catalogage des objets de musée.” September 1, 2018. https://www.nomenclature.info/.
- English
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- Term (International)
- home plate
- Inverted term (International)
- plate, home
- French
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- Term (International)
- marbre de baseball
- Term gender (International)
- masculine
- Alternative term(s)
- plaque de but
- Date created
- 2020-01-27
- Date updated
- 2020-11-09
- Bibliographic citation(s)
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- Office québécois de la langue française. n.d. “marbre.” Grand dictionnaire terminologique. Accessed August 13, 2019. http://www.granddictionnaire.com/ficheOqlf.aspx?Id_Fiche=8412605.
- Translation Bureau / Bureau de la traduction. n.d. “home plate / marbre.” Termium Plus. Accessed August 13, 2019. http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-fra.html?lang=fra&i=1&srchtxt=home+plate&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs.
- Wikipedia. n.d. “Baseball Field.” Wikipedia. Accessed August 13, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_field.
- Wikipedia. n.d. “Baseball.” Wikipédia. Accessed August 13, 2019. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball#Terrain.
- Wikipedia. n.d. “Glossary of Baseball.” Wikipedia. Accessed August 13, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_baseball.
- Wikipedia. n.d. “Lexique du baseball.” Wikipédia. Accessed August 13, 2019. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexique_du_baseball.
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- URL
- https://page.nomenclature.info/nom/14983 (reopens this page)
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