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platelet

plate·let
P p

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [pleyt-lit]
    • /ˈpleɪt lɪt/
    • /ˈpleɪt.lət/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [pleyt-lit]
    • /ˈpleɪt lɪt/

Definitions of platelet word

  • noun platelet a small platelike body, especially a blood platelet. 1
  • noun platelet blood cell 1
  • countable noun platelet Platelets are a kind of blood cell. If you cut yourself and you are bleeding, platelets help to stop the bleeding. 0
  • noun platelet a minute cell occurring in the blood of vertebrates and involved in clotting of the blood 0
  • noun platelet any of certain round or oval, nonnucleated disks, smaller than a red blood cell and containing no hemoglobin, found in the blood of mammals and associated with the process of blood clotting 0
  • noun platelet thrombocyte (sense 1) 0

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Origin of platelet

First appearance:

before 1890
One of the 20% newest English words
First recorded in 1890-95; plate1 + -let

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Parts of speech for Platelet

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

platelet popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 83% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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