Lexic.us

Definition of Plane

1. Adjective. Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another. "Skirts sewn with fine flat seams"

2. Verb. Cut or remove with or as if with a plane. "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"

3. Noun. An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets. "The flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"

4. Verb. Travel on the surface of water.

5. Noun. (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape. "Any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane"

6. Verb. Make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane. "Plane the top of the door"

7. Noun. A level of existence or development. "He lived on a worldly plane"

8. Noun. A power tool for smoothing or shaping wood.

9. Noun. A carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood. "The cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work"

Definition of Plane

1. n. Any tree of the genus Platanus.

2. a. Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.

3. n. A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.

4. v. t. 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.

5. v. i. Of a boat, to lift more or less out of the water while in motion, after the manner of a hydroplane; to hydroplane.

Definition of Plane

1. Adjective. Of a surface: flat or level. ¹

2. Noun. A level or flat surface. ¹

3. Noun. (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane). ¹

4. Noun. A level of existence or development. (''eg'', ''astral '''plane''''') ¹

5. Noun. A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc. ¹

6. Noun. (computing Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points. ¹

7. Noun. (anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions. ¹

8. Noun. A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface. ¹

9. Verb. (transitive) To smooth (wood) with a plane. ¹

10. Noun. An airplane; an aeroplane. ¹

11. Verb. (nautical) To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water. ¹

12. Verb. To glide or soar. ¹

13. Noun. (countable botany) A deciduous tree of the genus ''Platanus''. ¹

14. Noun. (context: Northern UK) A sycamore. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plane

1. to make smooth or even [v PLANED, PLANING, PLANES]

Medical Definition of Plane

1. 1. 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. 2. To efface or remove. "He planed away the names . . . Written on his tables." (Chaucer) 3. Figuratively, to make plain or smooth. "What student came but that you planed her path." (Tennyson) Origin: Cf. F. Planer, L. Planare, fr. Planus. See Plane, Plain, and cf. Planish. Any tree of the genus Platanus. The Oriental plane (Platanus orientalis) is a native of Asia. It rises with a straight, smooth, branching stem to a great height, with palmated leaves, and long pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small close-sitting flowers. The seeds are downy, and collected into round, rough, hard balls. The Occidental plane (Platanus occidentalis), which grows to a great height, is a native of North America, where it is popularly called sycamore, buttonwood, and buttonball, names also applied to the California species (Platanus racemosa). Origin: F, fr. L. Platanus, Gr, fr. Broad; so called on account of its broad leaves and spreading form. See Place, and cf. Platane, Plantain the tree. Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface. In science, this word (instead of plain) is almost exclusively used to designate a flat or level surface. Plane angle, the angle included between two straight lines in a plane. Plane chart, Plane curve. See Chart and Curve. Plane figure, a figure all points of which lie in the same plane. If bounded by straight lines it is a rectilinear plane figure, if by curved lines it is a curvilinear plane figure. Plane geometry, that part of geometry which treats of the relations and properties of plane figures. Plane problem, a problem which can be solved geometrically by the aid of the right line and circle only. Plane sailing, a scale for the use of navigators, on which are graduated chords, sines, tangents, secants, rhumbs, geographical miles, etc. Plane surveying, surveying in which the curvature of the earth is disregarded; ordinary field and topographical surveying of tracts of moderate extent. Plane table, an instrument used for plotting the lines of a survey on paper in the field. Plane trigonometry, the branch of trigonometry in which its principles are applied to plane triangles. Origin: L. Planus: cf. F. Plan. See Plan. 1. A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature. 2. An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator. 3. A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate. 4. A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc. Objective plane, the plane in which lie both the incident ray and the refracted or reflected ray. Origin: F. Plane, L. Plana. See Plane, &. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plane

planate planation planations planch planche planched plancher planches planchet planchets

planchette planchettes planching planchings planctomycete plane (current term) plane-parallel plane-polarized plane-polarized light plane-tree family

plane angle plane curve plane figure plane geometry plane joint plane of ecliptic plane of incidence

Literary usage of Plane

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Similarly all pointe at infinity in a plane are projected to a line (J 6) ... All line» parallel to a plane hace their vanishing points in a line, viz., ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The plane is operated by being pushed forward, over the surface of the material being worked, sc that the cutting edge bites into the fibre and removes a ..."

3. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1918)
"The plane of fixed points is called the plane of symmetry of any two ... Since the center and the line at infinity of the plane of fixed points of an ..."

4. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"In its vertical position, ad would be in the plane MN and de would be vertical, df is the intersection of the plane MN and a horizontal plane which is at a ..."

5. A History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921)
"Heron observes that the case of plane figures involves the finding of a mean proportional between two straight lines, and the case of solid figures the ..."

6. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Sts. 4-6 in. long, 4-angled, copiously pinnate : Ivs. of lower plane ovate, minutely cuspidate, denticulate on the upper side at the base; Ivs. of the upper ..."

7. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Similarly all pointe at infinity in a plane are projected to a line (J 6) ... All line» parallel to a plane hace their vanishing points in a line, viz., ..."

8. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The plane is operated by being pushed forward, over the surface of the material being worked, sc that the cutting edge bites into the fibre and removes a ..."

9. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1918)
"The plane of fixed points is called the plane of symmetry of any two ... Since the center and the line at infinity of the plane of fixed points of an ..."

10. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"In its vertical position, ad would be in the plane MN and de would be vertical, df is the intersection of the plane MN and a horizontal plane which is at a ..."

11. A History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921)
"Heron observes that the case of plane figures involves the finding of a mean proportional between two straight lines, and the case of solid figures the ..."

12. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Sts. 4-6 in. long, 4-angled, copiously pinnate : Ivs. of lower plane ovate, minutely cuspidate, denticulate on the upper side at the base; Ivs. of the upper ..."

Other Resources: