1540s, from Middle French plateine, from Old French platine "flat piece, metal plate" (13c.), perhaps altered (by influence of plat "flat") from patene, from Latin patena "pan [..]

The glass area on which original documents are placed to be copied. Sometimes the word is also used to refer to the cover that moves back and forth over the plate glass.

A general term for flat worksurface or reference surface. press brake Q

A flat plate of metal that presses the paper onto the form.

(n) work table of a machine tool(n) the flat plate of a printing press that presses the paper against the type(n) the roller on a typewriter against which the keys strike

A plate, used to attach the jack to the bolster.

the portion of the scanner that holds down the pages of a book. In the standard scanner it is a v shaped part with glass or plexiglass sides.

v. "(ppl.) covered with metal plate," s.v. plate v. OED. KEY: platen@v

v 1 plated 1

(printing) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. The part of a typewriter or printer on which the paper rests to receive an imp [..]