Definitions from Wiktionary (backplate)

▸ noun:  A plate protecting a fighting person's back.
▸ noun:  (underwater diving) A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.
▸ noun:  A metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, used to cover a port or slot.
▸ noun:  A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object.
▸ noun:  (UK, automotive) A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.
▸ noun:  Part of a condenser microphone that sits behind the diaphragm and which acts, in conjunction with the diaphragm, as a sort of variable capacitor.
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