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   platter

   /ˈplatə/

   noun

   • 1. a large flat dish or plate for serving food: "arrange the fruit on a serving platter"
   • ▪ a quantity of food served on a platter: "huge platters of cooked meat"
   • ▪ a meal or selection of food placed on a platter, especially one served in a restaurant: "dinner was a bowl of soup and a cold platter"
   • 2. the rotating metal disc forming the turntable of a record player.
   • ▪ a record: informal, dated "his son's fascination with a Jimi Hendrix collection prompted him to dig out some old platters"
   • ▪ a rigid rotating disk on which data is stored in a disk drive; a hard disk (considered as a physical object).

   Word Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French plater, from plat ‘large dish’ (see plate).

   Scrabble Points: 9

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