hotplate
hotplate Lexical Profile
hotplate Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A small, portable appliance featuring one or more electric or gas heating elements, used for cooking food, boiling water, or keeping meals warm.
"Because his studio apartment lacked a full stove, he prepared all of his evening meals on a small electric hotplate."
A piece of laboratory equipment with a flat, heated surface, designed to uniformly and safely heat chemical solutions or samples in flasks and beakers.
"The researcher placed the Erlenmeyer flask on the magnetic hotplate to carefully dissolve the powder into the solvent."
Word Origin & Etymology
A compound of the words 'hot' and 'plate', dating back to the mid-19th century to describe heated flat metal surfaces used originally for keeping dishes warm, and later adapted into portable cooking and laboratory appliances.
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