meaning of palette

1. A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments.
2. One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
3. A breastplate for a breast drill.
4. palette colour palette palmtop Or "pocket computer", "Hand-held Personal Computer", H/PC A small general-purpose, programmable, battery-powered computer cabable of handling both numbers and text in contrast to most pocket calculators which can be operated comfortably while held in one hand. A palmtop is usually loaded with an operating system such as Windows CE. Data can be transferred between the palmtop and a desktop PC. A palmtop is very similar to a Personal Digital Assistant though a palmptop may have a larger keyboard and more RAM and is possibly more general purpose in concept, if not in practise. The Psion Organiser is one of the best known examples. [Was it the first?]
5. board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used

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