license plate
noun
: a plate or tag (as of metal) attesting that a license has been secured and usually bearing a registration number
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The license plates are printed on demand and will be mailed to drivers within four to six weeks, according to El Movimiento Sigue.
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Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2025
Broadly, when a car passes an ALPR camera, a photograph of the vehicle is taken, and the system uses machine learning to extract text from the license plate.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2025
Around midnight on Sunday, automatic license plate readers in San Mateo identified the Tesla and a police sergeant located the car traveling northbound on U.S. Highway 101.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2025
There’s even the Italian license plate that the first owner used on the car’s maiden road trip across Europe.
—Howard Walker, Robb Report, 6 Jan. 2025
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Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2025
Broadly, when a car passes an ALPR camera, a photograph of the vehicle is taken, and the system uses machine learning to extract text from the license plate.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2025
Around midnight on Sunday, automatic license plate readers in San Mateo identified the Tesla and a police sergeant located the car traveling northbound on U.S. Highway 101.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2025
There’s even the Italian license plate that the first owner used on the car’s maiden road trip across Europe.
—Howard Walker, Robb Report, 6 Jan. 2025
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“License plate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/license%20plate. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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