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  • noun Plural form of backplate.

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Examples

  • The graphics promo package and toolkit was produced in HD 720p, and includes opens, transitions, mortises, endpage toolkits, custom backplates, and artwork produced for ESPN. com

    ESPN Hoops Package breaking this week « Art & Business of Motion 2009

  • In the center of the primary mirror, through the front- and backplates and the honeycomb, is a largeish hole: light hits the primary, is bounced straight up to a smaller mirror called the secondary, which focuses the light back to a camera positioned behind the hole in the primary.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • In the center of the primary mirror, through the front- and backplates and the honeycomb, is a largeish hole: light hits the primary, is bounced straight up to a smaller mirror called the secondary, which focuses the light back to a camera positioned behind the hole in the primary.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • In the center of the primary mirror, through the front- and backplates and the honeycomb, is a largeish hole: light hits the primary, is bounced straight up to a smaller mirror called the secondary, which focuses the light back to a camera positioned behind the hole in the primary.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • In the center of the primary mirror, through the front- and backplates and the honeycomb, is a largeish hole: light hits the primary, is bounced straight up to a smaller mirror called the secondary, which focuses the light back to a camera positioned behind the hole in the primary.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • From Winter is Coming: the sets are going up, apparently consisting of 'awesome' castle interiors on a wrap-around greenscreen to be used for special effects shots and backplates.

    More GAME OF THRONES news Adam Whitehead 2009

  • From Winter is Coming: the sets are going up, apparently consisting of 'awesome' castle interiors on a wrap-around greenscreen to be used for special effects shots and backplates.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

  • Champlain and his four Frenchmen were wearing breastplates, backplates, and helmets.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Champlain and his four Frenchmen were wearing breastplates, backplates, and helmets.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Standing with his booted feet apart and his head high, command in every inch of him, he wore the white-and-gold tabard of the Lord Captain Commander over his gilded breast - and backplates, a silk tabard more richly embroidered than any Pedron Niall had worn.

    Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005

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