Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or situated in a plane.
- adjective Flat.
- adjective Having a two-dimensional characteristic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lying in a plane; planary; flat.
- Of or pertaining to a plane.
- noun See
anastigmat .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
plane . - adjective
Flat ,two-dimensional . - adjective graph theory Able to be
embedded in theplane with noedges intersecting .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective involving two dimensions
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Contrary to earlier claims, we find that the amount of power concentrated in planar modes for $\ell = 2,3$ is not inconsistent with isotropy and Gaussianity.
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The construction shows that the wavefronts remain planar.
Optics basics: What is a wave? Part III: Diffraction « Skulls in the Stars
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Wikipedia suggests: "Something is called planar if it is made up of flat planes, or pertaining to planes."
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One of them was something called a planar transistor, created by Jean Hoerni,
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The joint venture used a new cell structure called a planar cell that enabled more aggressive cell scaling than conventional architectures.
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In doing so, they found that the Dishevelled genes activate a genetic pathway, called the planar cell polarity pathway, which helps determine positional information in cells and tissues.
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In doing so, they found that the Dishevelled genes activate a genetic pathway, called the planar cell polarity pathway, which helps determine positional information in cells and tissues.
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In doing so, they found that the Dishevelled genes activate a genetic pathway, called the planar cell polarity pathway, which helps determine positional information in cells and tissues.
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Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes, Volume 8, continues to include invited chapters on a broad range of topics, covering both main arrangements of the reconstituted system, namely planar lipid bilayers and spherical liposomes.
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Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes, Volume 7, continues to include invited chapters on a broad range of topics, covering both main arrangements of the reconstituted system, namely planar lipid bilayers and spherical liposomes.
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