Plait may refer to:
* Plait, also called a
braid
A braid (also referred to as a plait; ) is a complex structure or pattern formed by interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as textile yarns, wire, or hair.
The simplest and most common version is a flat, solid, three-strand ...
, intertwined strands of, for example, textile or hair
* Plait, now called a
pleat
A pleat (plait in older English) is a type of fold formed by doubling textile, fabric back upon itself and securing it in place. It is commonly used in clothing and upholstery to gather a wide piece of fabric to a narrower circumference.
Pleat ...
, a fold of fabric, used in clothing and upholstery
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Plait (gastropod)
A plait is an anatomical feature which is present on the shells of some snails, or gastropods. This sculpture occurs often in the shells of marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda, but it is also found in some pulmonate land snails ...
, a fold in the columella of a gastropod mollusc
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Plaiting in basketry
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Phil Plait
Philip Cary Plait (born September 30, 1964), also known as The Bad Astronomer, is an American astronomer, skeptic, and popular science blogger. Plait has worked as part of the Hubble Space Telescope team, images and spectra of astronomical obj ...
, American astronomer, skeptic and blogger
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