Meaning

4 senses
  1. Of or pertaining to a plane.

    A planar projection of a three-dimensional object is its projection onto a plane.

  2. Flat, two-dimensional.

    involving or having two dimensions

  3. Able to be embedded in the plane with no edges intersecting.

    A complete graph with more than four nodes is never planar.

  4. Having a flat profile, not etched into a mesa.

Translations

4 languages

Origin

From Late Latin plānārius (“relating to a plane”), derived from Latin plānus (“flat”, “lev

From Late Latin plānārius (“relating to a plane”), derived from Latin plānus (“flat”, “level”), equivalent to plane + -ar, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).

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