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Definition of Plano

1. Noun. A city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas).

Medical Definition of Plano

1. In optics, an optical surface which has been made substantially flat, the degree of flatness depending upon the performance required. A plano-convex lens is a positive lens with one surface flat and the other convex. In the dictionary, plano is given only as a combining form, but in practical optics it is often used alone to denote any particularly flat surface-- that has been worked flat. See: optical flat. Origin: L. Planus. (04 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plano

Literary usage of Plano

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

1. Christianity in China, Tartary, and Thibet by Évariste Régis Huc (1857)
"THE two embassies set off in 1246; the Franciscans, John de plano Carpini *, and his companion Stephen, travelling through Bohemia and Silesia. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Trans., 1783), consists of two plano-convex lenses of equal lengths, ... The triple lens is composed of dense fluid plano-convex lens between two lenses of ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1902)
"ON A HITHERTO UNEXAMINED MANUSCRIPT OF JOHN DE plano CARPINI. By C. RAYMOND BEAZLEY, ... It contains, in the most complete form, the text of John de plano ..."

4. Christianity in China, Tartary, and Thibet by Évariste Régis Huc (1857)
"THE two embassies set off in 1246; the Franciscans, John de plano Carpini *, and his companion Stephen, travelling through Bohemia and Silesia. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Trans., 1783), consists of two plano-convex lenses of equal lengths, ... The triple lens is composed of dense fluid plano-convex lens between two lenses of ..."

6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1902)
"ON A HITHERTO UNEXAMINED MANUSCRIPT OF JOHN DE plano CARPINI. By C. RAYMOND BEAZLEY, ... It contains, in the most complete form, the text of John de plano ..."

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