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platter

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: platter

1
n
a large shallow dish used for serving food
2
n
sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: platter
1

n a large shallow dish used for serving food

Type of:
flatware
tableware that is relatively flat and fashioned as a single piece
2

n sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove

Synonyms:
disc, disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, record
Types:
L-P, LP
a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at 33.3 rpm
78, seventy-eight
a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute
Type of:
audio, audio recording, sound recording
a recording of acoustic signals
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