Definition of plane

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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..

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Spherics :: Spherics (n.) The doctrine of the sphere; the science of the properties and relations of the circles, figures, and other magnitudes of a sphere, produced by planes intersecting it; spherical geometry and trigonometry..
Tetartohedral :: Tetartohedral (a.) Having one fourth the number of planes which are requisite to complete symmetry.
Maltose :: Maltose (n.) A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power..
Planetary :: Planetary (a.) Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering.
Joint :: "Joint (n.) A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification..
Elevation :: Elevation (n.) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by the ancients the orthography..
Alineation :: Alineation (n.) Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun..
Elongate :: Elongate (v. i.) To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit..
Frustum :: Frustum (n.) The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other..
Projection :: Projection (n.) Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.
Internal :: Internal (a.) Lying toward the mesial plane; mesial.
Shaving :: Shaving (n.) That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument..
Bit :: Bit (v.) The cutting iron of a plane.
Trioctile :: Trioctile (n.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are three octants, or three eighths of a circle, that is, 135 degrees, distant from each other..
Anamorphosis :: Anamorphosis (n.) A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image..
Flat :: Flat (superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane..
Hemiholohedral :: Hemiholohedral (a.) Presenting hemihedral forms, in which half the sectants have the full number of planes..
Jovicentric :: Jovicentric (a.) Revolving around the planet Jupiter; appearing as viewed from Jupiter.
Prism :: Prism (n.) A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms..
Sagittal :: Sagittal (a.) In the mesial plane; mesial; as, a sagittal section of an animal..
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