noun. A surface containing all the straight lines that connect any two points on it.

noun. A flat or level surface.

noun. A level of development, existence, or achievement.

noun. An airplane or hydroplane.

noun. A supporting surface of an airplane; an airfoil or wing.

adjective. Of or being a figure lying in a plane.

adjective. Flat; level. synonym: level.

noun. A carpenter's tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing and leveling wood.

noun. A trowel-shaped tool for smoothing the surface of clay, sand, or plaster in a mold.

intransitive verb. To smooth or finish with a plane.

intransitive verb. To remove with a plane.

intransitive verb. To work with a plane.

intransitive verb. To rise partly out of the water, as a hydroplane does at high speeds.

intransitive verb. To soar or glide.

intransitive verb. To travel by airplane.

noun. The plane tree.

To make smooth, especially by the use of a plane: as, to plane wood.

To rub out; erase.

noun. A wood-working plane having a stock resting on adjustable slides which take the place of the sole, and having adjustable fences on each side of the stock, so as to admit, by the use of various attachments, of the use of a great variety of bits. It can thus be used in molding, matching, beading, reeding, aud fiuting, as a hollow, chamfer-, fillister-, dado-, and slitting-plane, and as a plow. Also called universal plane.

Having the character of a plane; contained within a plane: as, a plane mirror; a plane curve.

In botany, having a flat surface or surfaces.

In entomology, flat and not deflexed; flat at the margins: as, plane elytra.

noun. A geometrical surface such that if any two points in it are joined by a straight line, the line will lie wholly on the surface; a surface such that two of them which have any three points in common must coincide over their whole extent; hence, a real surface having (approximately) this form.

noun. Specifically In biology: An ideal surface of extension in any axis of an organism: as, the vertical longitudinal plane of the body.

noun. A surface approximately flat or level; a “horizon” : as, the plane of the teeth or of the diaphragm.

noun. In coal-mining, any slope or incline on which coal is raised or lowered, but usually applied to self-acting inclines, or those on which the coal is lowered by gravity. [Pennsylvania anthracite region.] In England any main road, whether level or inclined, may be called a plane

noun. In crystallography, one of the natural faces of a crystal.

noun. Figuratively, a grade of existence or a stage of development: as, to live on a higher plane.

noun. In geometry, a plane through the center of a sphere.

noun. In linegeom., one of the planes of which two are determined by each straight of the congruence taken with each of the two straights consecutive to it by which it is intersected.

To make plane or smooth; make clear.

noun. The plane-tree.

noun. A tool for paring, smoothing, truing, and finishing woodwork.

noun. A metallic gage or test for a true surface; a true plane or plane surface; a surface-plate.

noun. An instrument, resembling a plasterers' trowel, used by brickmakers for striking off clay projecting above the top of the mold.

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. To efface or remove.

transitive verb. Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.

noun. Any tree of the genus Platanus.

noun. 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.

noun. An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve

noun. A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.

noun. 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

noun. the horizontal plane upon which the object which is to be delineated, or whose place is to be determined, is supposed to stand.

noun. See Perspective.

noun. a plane in which points infinitely distant are conceived as situated.

noun. the cutting chisel of a joiner's plane.

noun. See Polarization.

noun. One of the planes to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position in space.

noun. the plane in which lie both the incident ray and the refracted or reflected ray.

"Plane-polarised light is light with the vibrations all in a single plane, perpendicular to the plane through the ray which is technically called the “plane of polarisation."

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