floorplate

== English == === Alternative forms === floor plate === Etymology === From floor +‎ plate. === Noun === floorplate (plural floorplates) A (usually metal) plate used as industrial flooring. A horizontal, structural, load-bearing member in platform framing (wooden building framing). Also called bottom plate, sill plate, sole plate or (lower) wall plate. The structural base plate of the floors (storeys) of a building, usually made up of bottom panels, floor panels, floor slabs, paving slabs, hollow core slabs or beams or joists in timber constructions. (biology) A specialized glial structure integral to the developing nervous system of vertebrate organisms.