A small piece of ground or a plot of land. In surveying, a detailed map showing property boundaries and divisions.
From Old French 'plat' meaning flat, from Latin 'plattus'. The land-surveying sense developed from the idea of a flat representation of terrain on paper maps.
Plats are essential legal documents in property ownership - they show exactly where your land begins and ends. The word shares its origin with 'plate' and 'plateau', all relating to flatness, because early plats were drawn on flat surfaces to show property boundaries.
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