Definition of "hotplate" [hotplate]

• A low-powered semi-portable electric stove. (noun)

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• "A plancha is a griddle, the kind of hotplate heated from below that is used in all Spanish restaurant kitchens, but as a verb planchar means to iron clothes and the computer had read it as the third person present of that verb."
• "Ms. Celmins arrived in Los Angeles in 1962 to begin an MFA at UCLA, where she put aside her fascination with the psychological display and painterly gestures of Abstract Expressionism to render the mundane objects of her studio a glowing hotplate, for example in a meticulously impersonal style."
• "He cooked oatmeal and boiled water for coffee on an electric hotplate in the office."