Definition of plane

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Plane (a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate..

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Segment :: Segment (n.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration..
Calculated :: Calculated (p. p. & a.) Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball..
Plain :: Plain (superl.) Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See Plane.
Monaxial :: Monaxial (a.) Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; as, monaxial development..
Router :: Router (n.) A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity..
Base :: Base (n.) The basal plane of a crystal.
Plane :: Plane (a.) To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank..
Macropinacoid :: Macropinacoid (n.) One of the two planes of an orthorhombic crystal which are parallel to the vertical and longer lateral (macrodiagonal) axes.
Direction :: Direction (n.) The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object.
Whisk :: Whisk (n.) A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
Squarrose :: Squarrose (a.) Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf..
Retrograde :: Retrograde (a.) Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet..
Primum Mobile :: Primum mobile () In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline..
Trapezium :: Trapezium (n.) A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel..
Planetary :: Planetary (a.) Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering.
Mars :: Mars (n.) The metallic element iron, the symbol of which / was the same as that of the planet Mars..
Planer :: Planer (n.) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even..
Unsphere :: Unsphere (v. t.) To remove, as a planet, from its sphere or orb..
Saturnicentric :: Saturnicentric (a.) Appearing as if seen from the center of the planet Saturn; relating or referred to Saturn as a center.
Platan :: Platan (n.) The plane tree.
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