Aeroplane :: Aeroplane (n.) A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it..

Banding Plane :: Banding plane () A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.

Capping Plane :: Capping plane () A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails.

Convexo-plane :: Convexo-plane (a.) Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex..

Coplaner :: Coplaner (a.) Situated in one plane.

Doorplane :: Doorplane (n.) A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant..

Interplanetary :: Interplanetary (a.) Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces..

Nonplane :: Nonplane (a.) Not lying in one plane; -- said of certain curves.

Plane :: Plane (n.) Any tree of the genus Platanus.

Plane :: Plane (a.) Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface..

Plane :: Plane (a.) 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..

Plane :: Plane (a.) 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..

Plane :: Plane (a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate..

Plane :: Plane (a.) 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..

Plane :: Plane (a.) 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..

Plane :: Plane (a.) To efface or remove.

Plane :: Plane (a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth..

Plane Table :: Plane table () See under Plane, a..

Plane Tree :: Plane tree () Same as 1st Plane.

Plane-parallel :: Plane-parallel (a.) Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass..

Planed :: Planed (imp. & p. p.) of Plan.

Planer :: Planer (n.) One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals..

Planer :: Planer (n.) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even..

Planer Tree :: Planer tree () A small-leaved North American tree (Planera aquatica) related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit..

Planet :: Planet (n.) A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system..

Planet :: Planet (n.) A star, as influencing the fate of a men..

Planet-stricken :: Planet-stricken (a.) Alt. of Planet-struc.

Planet-struck :: Planet-struck (a.) Affected by the influence of planets; blasted.

Planetarium :: Planetarium (n.) An orrery. See Orrery.

Planetary :: Planetary (a.) Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year..

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