Definition of plane

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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..

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Tetragon :: Tetragon (n.) A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc..
Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane..
Aeroplane :: Aeroplane (n.) A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it..
Macropinacoid :: Macropinacoid (n.) One of the two planes of an orthorhombic crystal which are parallel to the vertical and longer lateral (macrodiagonal) axes.
Saturnicentric :: Saturnicentric (a.) Appearing as if seen from the center of the planet Saturn; relating or referred to Saturn as a center.
Sagittal :: Sagittal (a.) In the mesial plane; mesial; as, a sagittal section of an animal..
Tetartohedral :: Tetartohedral (a.) Having one fourth the number of planes which are requisite to complete symmetry.
Horizon :: Horizon (n.) A plane passing through the eye of the spectator and at right angles to the vertical at a given place; a plane tangent to the earth's surface at that place; called distinctively the sensible horizon.
Moon :: Moon (n.) A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn..
Intramercurial :: Intramercurial (a.) Between the planet Mercury and the sun; -- as, the hypothetical Vulcan is intramercurial..
Horizon :: Horizon (n.) A plane parallel to the sensible horizon of a place, and passing through the earth's center; -- called also rational / celestial horizon..
Dispositor :: Dispositor (n.) The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is.
Planer :: Planer (n.) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even..
Stick :: Stick (n.) To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck..
Stock :: Stock (n.) The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock..
Ultrazodiacal :: Ultrazodiacal (a.) Outside the zodiac; being in that part of the heavens that is more than eight degrees from the ecliptic; as, ultrazodiacal planets, that is, those planets which in part of their orbits go beyond the zodiac..
Decahedron :: Decahedron (n.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces.
Annulus :: Annulus (n.) The solid formed by a circle revolving around a line which is the plane of the circle but does not cut it.
Draff :: Draff (n.) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter..
Scabbard Plane :: Scabbard plane () See Scaleboard plane, under Scaleboard..
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