Combination plate
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South Indian style vegetarian thali or unavu served in a restaurant.

North Indian style vegetarian thali served in a restaurant.
A combination plate can refer to several things, including:

A combination meal
A type of tableware
A type of dental dentures
Crystals and/or minerals that have formed in a combination,
A printing plate that has both line drawings and halftones
A combination wall plate molded with a variety of ports for various electrical items, such as switches and plugs.

Contents
1 Meal
2 Tableware
3 Dentures
4 Gemology
5 Printing
6 Wall plate
7 See also
8 References
9 Further reading
Meal

A combination plate of American Chinese food, served on a disposable compartment plate dish
A combination plate may refer to a meal or plate with a combination of foods.[1][2][3]

Tableware
A combination plate may refer to a type of tableware plate, dish or platter that is designed with separate compartments for foods to be placed in.[4] This has also been referred to as a compartment plate[3] and a partition plate. Combination plate meals are sometimes served on this type of plate.[3] In Nepal, this type of plate is called a thaali, and is typically made of metal.[5] In Nepalese cuisine, the dish daal bhaat is often served on a thaali.[5] In the United States, compartment plates have been used to serve table d'hôte dinners.[3] In the United States, combination plates have been used as a part of U.S. army mess kits.[6]

An airline meal served on a partition tray

Plastic partitioned tableware

Apple pies served on partitioned tableware

A mess kit with a combination plate (bottom)

Round combination plates serving Indian food

Dentures
In dentistry, the term has referred to dentures prepared and cast with a combination of materials, such as gold and rubber, plastic and metallic material,[7] and gold and porcelain.[8]

Gemology
In gemology, a combination plate refers to two or more crystals and/or minerals that have formed in a combination.

A rare and fine combination plate from the Tsumeb Mine. Glassy, mostly transparent, smoky-colored wulfenite crystals with sharp beveled edges are richly and aesthetically scattered on the matrix. Bundles of lustrous, yellowish-tan mimetite are concentrated at the top of the piece, and the largest wulfenite, at 9 mm, is aesthetically framed by two mimetite crystal clusters.

Printing
In printing and graphic arts, a printing plate that has "both halftones and line drawings, often combined"[9][10]

Wall plate

A combination wall plate
A combination plate can refer to a combination wall plate that has a combination of ports for switches, plugs, etc.[11][12][13]

See also
Banchan
Blue-plate special
Foodpairing
Meat and three
Plate lunch
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