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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Lying or occurring in the same plane. Used of points, lines, or figures.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lying in one plane.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Math.) Situated in one plane.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective geometry Within the same plane.
  • adjective astronomy Orbiting a central celestial object within the same orbital plane.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective lying in the same plane

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Examples

  • If the image is not coplanar with the crosshairs (that is the image is either in front of or behind the crosshairs), then putting your eye at different points behind the ocular causes the crosshairs to appear to be at different points on the target.

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  • If the image is not coplanar with the crosshairs (that is the image is either in front of or behind the crosshairs), then putting your eye at different points behind the ocular causes the crosshairs to appear to be at different points on the target.

    How Many Groups is Enough? 2009

  • Do not let your foot enter the three-dimensional space dedicated to the next stall, which is bounded above and below by an invisible wall coplanar with the partition.

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  • Linus knew from his college days that the peptide bond had to be rigid and coplanar.

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  • Levels of PBDEs, PCDDs, PCDFs, and coplanar PCBs in edible fish from California coastal waters.

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  • Q, coplanar with a, that make an angle of size μ with

    Nineteenth Century Geometry Torretti, Roberto 2007

  • Newton could not explain the coplanar orbits of planets and surmised,

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  • Neither b1 nor b2 meets a, but a meets every line through Q that is coplanar with a and makes with PQ an angle less than μ.

    Nineteenth Century Geometry Torretti, Roberto 2007

  • If Euclid's Postulate is denied, there are countless straight lines through Q, coplanar with a, that make acute angles with PQ but never meet a. Consider the set of real numbers which are the magnitudes of these acute angles.

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