plated adjective. ['pleɪtɪd] L15.
[from PLATE verb, noun: see -ED¹, -ED².]
1. That has been plated; wearing plate armour; protected by armour-plate; covered with a thin coating or film of metal. L15.
plated wire a wire of a non-magnetic metal such as copper having a thin coating of a magnetic alloy, used as an element in some computer memories.

2. Of a garment etc.: having an outer surface or nap of finer material than the body. M19.

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