Usually means: Baseball's final scoring point location.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word home plate:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. home plate: Merriam-Webster
  2. home plate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. home plate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. home plate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. home plate: Vocabulary.com
  6. home-plate, home plate: Wordnik
  7. home plate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. home plate: Wiktionary
  9. home plate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. home plate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. home plate: Dictionary.com
  12. Home Plate (Mars), Home Plate (album), Home plate (disambiguation), Home plate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. home plate: FreeDictionary.org
  14. home plate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. home plate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. home plate: Rhymezone
  17. home plate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. home plate: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Home Plate: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Home Plate: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Home plate: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (home plate)

noun:  (baseball) A flat, pentagonal, rubber object placed at the center of the batter's box, which is used as a basis for judging pitched strikes and balls, and the touching of which by a runner advancing from or past third base scores a run.

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