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

Appulsive :: Appulsive (a.) Striking against; impinging; as, the appulsive influence of the planets..

Quannet :: Quannet (n.) A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be used like a plane..

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

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..

Planetary :: Planetary (a.) Caused by planets.

Hendecagon :: Hendecagon (n.) A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles.

Digression :: Digression (n.) The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets..

Calipers :: Calipers (n. pl.) An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses..

Star :: Star (n.) A planet supposed to influence one's destiny; (usually pl.) a configuration of the planets, supposed to influence fortune..

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..

Arris :: Arris (n.) The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column..

Ellipse :: Ellipse (n.) The elliptical orbit of a planet.

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

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

Curtate :: Curtate (a.) Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic..

Laterad :: Laterad (adv.) Toward the side; away from the mesial plane; -- opposed to mesiad.

Sidereal :: Sidereal (a.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day..

Axis :: Axis (n.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded..

Gyroidal :: Gyroidal (a.) Turning the plane of polarization circularly or spirally to the right or left.

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