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Dip :: Dip (v. i.) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip..

Time-table :: Time-table (n.) A plane surface divided in one direction with lines representing hours and minutes, and in the other with lines representing miles, and having diagonals (usually movable strings) representing the speed and position of various trains..

Equator :: Equator (n.) The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line..

Vertical :: Vertical (a.) Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb; as, a vertical line..

Trapezium :: Trapezium (n.) A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel..

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

Plain :: Plain (v.) To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.

Jovian :: "Jovian (a.) Of or pertaining to Jove, or Jupiter (either the deity or the planet)..

Decagon :: Decagon (n.) A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal.

Octant :: Octant (n.) The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees..

Jointer :: "Jointer (n.) A long stationary plane, for plaining the edges of barrel staves..

Sideration :: Sideration (n.) The state of being siderated, or planet-struck; esp., blast in plants; also, a sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis..

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

Brachypinacoid :: Brachypinacoid (n.) A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.

Exaltation :: Exaltation (n.) That place of a planet in the zodiac in which it was supposed to exert its strongest influence.

Occidental :: Occidental (a.) Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; -- opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet..

Bit :: Bit (v.) The cutting iron of a plane.

Router :: Router (n.) A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes..

Hemisect :: Hemisect (v. t.) To divide along the mesial plane.

Shears :: Shears (n.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe..

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