floorplate

Noun

 * 1) A (usually metal) plate used as industrial flooring.
 * 2) A horizontal, structural, load-bearing member in platform framing (wooden building framing). Also called bottom plate, sill plate, sole plate or (lower) wall plate.
 * 3) The structural base plate of the floors (storeys) of a building, usually made up of bottom panels, floor panels, floor slabs, paving slabs, hollow core slabs or beams or joists in timber constructions.
 * 4)  A specialized glial structure integral to the developing nervous system of vertebrate organisms.
 * 1)  A specialized glial structure integral to the developing nervous system of vertebrate organisms.