Meaning plane
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A plane is a flat surface that extends without end in all directions.
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A plane is a flat, two-dimensional surface. When used as in "film plane," it refers to the flat surface of film, as opposed to the edge or end of film. It can also refer to the part of a cam [..]
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"soar, glide on motionless wings," early 15c., from Old French planer "to hover (as a bird), to lie flat," from plan (n.) "plane," from Latin planum "flat surface&qu [..]
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"to make smooth," early 14c., "to gloss over, explain away;" mid-14c. as "to make smooth or even," from Old French planer "to smooth, level off; wipe away, erase&quo [..]
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"tree of the genus Platanus," late 14c., from Old French plane, earlier plasne (14c.), from Latin platanus, from Greek platanos, earlier platanistos "plane tree," a species from As [..]
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1908, short for aeroplane (see airplane).
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"tool for smoothing surfaces," mid-14c., from Old French plane, earlier plaine (14c.), from Late Latin plana, back-formation from planare "make level," from Latin planus "leve [..]
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"flat surface," c. 1600, from Latin planum "flat surface, plane, level, plain," noun use of neuter of adjective planus "flat, level, even, plain, clear," from PIE *pla-no [..]
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in geometry, a plane is a flat, two-dimensional surface. • plane means flat or a flat surface. • plane shapes are flat, having only two dimensions, those of length and width.
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A flat or level surface. Related: Dan Flavin. Monument 1 for V. Tatlin. 1964 Henri Matisse. Interior with a Young Girl (Girl Reading). 1905–06 Man Ray. The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Sha [..]
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Imaginary line connecting two points on a surface. See Plane of symmetry.
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A flat surface that stretches into infinity.
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flat surface of two dimensions (length and width).
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A plane surface is a flat surface, and any distinct flat surface within a painting or sculpture can be referred to as a plane
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(also "swing plane") most easily visualized as the plane that the shaft of the club or the clubhead's arc describes during the swing Example: The subject of plane/swing plane ca [..]
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airplane: an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane" cut or remove with or as if with a [..]
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(swing)    A two-dimensional surface described by the circular path of the clubhead.  The relationship of this plane to two other planes is critical to every golf shot. 1) The inclination of this plane is critical relative to the plane on which the feet and the ball rest (stance plane).  On any given stance plane, the swing plane inclination is inc [..]
Source: factcheckgolf.org

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a carpenter’s tool used to make wood smooth. It is also a short word for aeroplane
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A part of the intelligent network conceptual model. [T1.667-1999]
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A surface upon which the image of all points in the field of view of an optical instrument is created.
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A flat surface that stretches into infinity.
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To dream that you use a plane, denotes that your liberality and successful efforts will be highly commended. To see carpenters using their planes, denotes that you will progress smoothly in your undertakings. To dream of seeing planes, denotes congeniality and even success. A love of the real, and not the false, is portended by this dream.   
Source: dreams-dictionary.org

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A plane surface through the study cube on which the value of one of the three axes of the cube is constant.
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a flat two-dimensional surface (physical or theoretical) with infinite width and length, zero thickness and zero curvature
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(n) an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets(n) (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape(n) a level of existence or development(n) a power tool for smoothing or s [..]
Source: beedictionary.com

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sail with much of the boat projecting over your own bow wave, so that only a small section of the hull is in the water; allows the boat to go faster than the theoretical maximum hull speed
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ADV clearly| plainly| distinctly; completely
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A range of 65,536 (1000016) contiguous Unicode code points, where the first code point is an integer multiple of 65,536 (1000016). Planes are numbered from 0 to 16, with the number being the first cod [..]
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A surface that has no curvature; a surface that is perfectly flat.
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Construction geometry consisting of a flat surface.  Planes can be used for a 2D sketch, section view of a model, a neutral plane in a draft feature.
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Level surface. Used in photography chiefly in respect to focal plane, an imaginary level surface perpendicular to the lens axis in which the lens is intended to form an image. When the camera is loaded the focal plane is occupied by the film surface. Polaris [..]
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Shorthand for hydroplane, as a verb.
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To skip along the water; as in: That speed boat is up on a plane. planing hull. A hull which can get up on a plane; as in: Most cruising sailboats do not have a planing hull.
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To gain hydrodynamic lift, causing the boat to lift, rising slightly out of the water so that it is gliding over the water rather than plowing through it, reaching speeds in excess of those normally a [..]
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 When a vessel skims over the surface of the water rather than moving through it.
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See DIVE PLANE.
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To gain hydrodynamic lift, causing the boat to lift, rising slightly out of the water so that it is gliding over the water rather than plowing through it, reaching speeds in excess of those normally a [..]
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Imaginary line connecting two points on a surface.
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n.(1) "plane tree," s.v. plane sb.\1 OED. KEY: plane@n1
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n1 2 plane 1 planes 1
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A surface without curvature, such that a straight line joining any two of its points lies wholly on the surface.
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Fixed-wing autopilot software variant of the ArduPilot project.
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Of a surface: flat or level.
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tarpaulin awning
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