1. A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrificies. 2. (Arch.) A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like.
The unit of electric current; -- defined by the
International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one
tenth of the unit of current of the C. ...