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Definition or meaning of the English word Plane
To efface or remove. (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 incli (a.).
A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface; used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate. (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. (a.).
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. (a.).
Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in; or constituting; a plane; as; a plane surface. (a.).
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; as; to plane a plank. (a.).
Any tree of the genus Platanus. (n.).
Figuratively; to make plain or smooth. (a.).
Translations for the English word Plane
German Translation for the English word Plane is hobeln
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