Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or situated in a plane.
- adj. Flat: a planar surface.
- adj. Having a two-dimensional characteristic.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Lying in a plane; planary; flat.
- Of or pertaining to a plane.
- n. See anastigmat.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to a plane.
- adj. Flat, two-dimensional.
- adj. graph theory Able to be embedded in the plane with no edges intersecting.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. involving two dimensions
Etymologies
- From Late Latin planarius ("relating to a plane"), from planum ("plane"). (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin plānāris, flat, from Latin plānus; see plain. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“The construction shows that the wavefronts remain planar.”
Optics basics: What is a wave? Part III: Diffraction « Skulls in the Stars
“Wikipedia suggests: "Something is called planar if it is made up of flat planes, or pertaining to planes.”
“One of them was something called a planar transistor, created by Jean Hoerni,”
“The joint venture used a new cell structure called a planar cell that enabled more aggressive cell scaling than conventional architectures.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A better understanding of this phenomenon, called planar cell polarity, may also help scientists learn how improper cellular orientation can lead to spina bifida, polycystic kidney disease, and metastatic cancer.”
“String formFactor: returns the form factor of the activity, e.g. "planar" for most desktop activities, "mediacenter" for media centers and either "horizontal" or”
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