Plages

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of webster s dictionary which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain.

Plages. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date and any more recent senses may be completely missing. The plages of the north. Plage definition is the beach of a seaside resort. French from italian piaggia ultimately from greek plagia neuter pl.

A sandy beach at a seaside resort. Of plagios oblique slanting. A bright and intensely hot area in the sun s chromosphere usually associated with a sunspot. The plage regions map closely to the bright spots in the photosphere below but the latter have much smaller spatial scales accordingly plage occurs most visibly near a sunspot region.

See plagal plage plɑːʒ n astronomy astronomy a bright patch in the sun s chromosphere. Plage definition a sandy bathing beach at a seashore resort. A sandy beach at a seaside resort. A bright and intensely hot area in the sun s chromosphere usually associated with a sunspot.