Definition of Plane figure

1. Noun. A two-dimensional shape.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Plane Figure

planches
planchet
planchets
planchette
planchettes
planching
planchings
planctomycete
plane
plane-parallel
plane-polarized
plane-polarized light
plane-tree family
plane angle
plane curve
plane figure (current term)
plane geometry
plane joint
plane of ecliptic
plane of incidence
plane of pelvic canal
plane of regard
plane polarized light
plane sailing
plane seat
plane section

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 ..."

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