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In the United States, a plat (/ p l æ t / [1] or / p l ɑː t /) [2] (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Surveys to show the distance and bearing between section corners, sometimes including topographic or ...
Plato (/ ˈ p l eɪ t oʊ / PLAY-toe; [1] Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn; born c. 428–423 BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling. Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of the ...
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water, using the green pigment chlorophyll.
A contemporary plat map used in the lot and block system. The lot and block survey system is a method used in the United States and Canada to locate and identify land, particularly for lots in densely populated metropolitan areas, suburban areas and exurbs. It is sometimes referred to as the recorded plat survey system or the recorded map ...
Plat or Plats may also refer to: Plat, Rogaška Slatina, a settlement in the Rogaška Slatina municipality, Slovenia; Plat, Mežica, a settlement in the Mežica municipality, Slovenia; Plat, Croatia, a small resort town in Župa Dubrovačka, Croatia; Tissue plasminogen activator (abbreviated PLAT), a protein involved in the breakdown of blood clots
Fruits of four different banana cultivars. Bamboo – bamboosa ardinarifolia; Banana – mainly Musa × paradisica, but also other Musa species and hybrids; Baobab – Adansonia Bay – Laurus spp. or Umbellularia spp.
Jean-Philippe Rameau. Platée is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Jean-Philippe Rameau with a libretto by Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d'Orville.Rameau bought the rights to the libretto Platée ou Junon jalouse (Plataea, or Juno Jealous) by Jacques Autreau (1657–1745) and had d'Orville modify it. [1]