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Definition of plane

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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..

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Jointer :: Jointer (n.) A plane for smoothing the surfaces of pieces which are to be accurately joine.

Trajectory :: Trajectory (n.) The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air..

Orb :: Orb (n.) A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star..

Epoch :: Epoch (n.) The date at which a planet or comet has a longitude or position.

Anomaly :: Anomaly (n.) The angle measuring apparent irregularities in the motion of a planet.

Coordinate :: Coordinate (n.) Lines, or other elements of reference, by means of which the position of any point, as of a curve, is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes, called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See Abscissa..

Uranian :: Uranian (a.) Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus; as, the Uranian year..

Platanus :: Platanus (n.) A genus of trees; the plane tree.

Anomaly :: Anomaly (n.) The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform..

Zone :: Zone (n.) The portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes; the portion of a surface of revolution included between two planes perpendicular to the axis.

Regrede :: Regrede (v. i.) To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit..

Segment :: Segment (n.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration..

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

Quincunx :: Quincunx (n.) The position of planets when distant from each other five signs, or 150¡..

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..

Planetoidal :: Planetoidal (a.) Pertaining to a planetoid.

Lucifer :: Lucifer (n.) The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon..

Steep-down :: Steep (n.) A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice..

Planetary :: Planetary (a.) Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system..

Motion :: Motion (n.) Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east..