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Definition of Plane figure
1. Noun. A two-dimensional shape.
Generic synonyms: Figure
Specialized synonyms: Heart, Polygon, Polygonal Shape, Conic, Conic Section, Oblong, Hemicycle, Semicircle, Sector, Star, Paraboloid, Ellipsoid, Tree, Tree Diagram
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plane Figure
Literary usage of Plane figure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Suppose a plane figure to rotate in ita own plane, with angular velocity * ...
As any displacement of a plane figure in its own plane is equivalent to a ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The mean distance of a plane figure from a line in its plane, ... If No is the
area of a plane figure, and Ni, Ni, . . . are its moments with regard to a ..."
3. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus: Containing the Theory by Benjamin Williamson (1899)
"On the motion of a plane figure in Its Plane. ... When an invariable plane figure
moves in its plane, it can be brought from any one position to any other ..."
4. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1910)
"Given a plane figure F and a line I in the plane of F; the set of points in which
the lines of F distinct from I meet I is called the section of F by I. The ..."
5. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1910)
"Given a plane figure F and a line / in the plane of F; the set of points in which
the lines of F distinct from I meet / is called the section of F by /. ..."
6. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus: Containing the Theory by Benjamin Williamson (1899)
"On the Motion of a plane figure in its Plane. ... When an invariable plane figure
moves in its plane, it can be brought from any one position to any other ..."
7. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The fundamental idea is that of transforming a plane figure into a plane figure
by means of projective pencils, or three-dimensional figures into ..."
8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Suppose a plane figure to rotate in ita own plane, with angular velocity * ...
As any displacement of a plane figure in its own plane is equivalent to a ..."
9. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The mean distance of a plane figure from a line in its plane, ... If No is the
area of a plane figure, and Ni, Ni, . . . are its moments with regard to a ..."
10. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus: Containing the Theory by Benjamin Williamson (1899)
"On the motion of a plane figure in Its Plane. ... When an invariable plane figure
moves in its plane, it can be brought from any one position to any other ..."
11. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1910)
"Given a plane figure F and a line I in the plane of F; the set of points in which
the lines of F distinct from I meet I is called the section of F by I. The ..."
12. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1910)
"Given a plane figure F and a line / in the plane of F; the set of points in which
the lines of F distinct from I meet / is called the section of F by /. ..."
13. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus: Containing the Theory by Benjamin Williamson (1899)
"On the Motion of a plane figure in its Plane. ... When an invariable plane figure
moves in its plane, it can be brought from any one position to any other ..."
14. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The fundamental idea is that of transforming a plane figure into a plane figure
by means of projective pencils, or three-dimensional figures into ..."