Planar Definition

plānər, -när
adjective
Of or pertaining to a point on a surface at which the curvature is zero; of or lying in one plane.
Webster's New World
Of, relating to, or situated in a plane.
American Heritage
Flat.
A planar surface.
American Heritage
Having a two-dimensional characteristic.
American Heritage

(graph theory, of a graph) Able to be embedded in the plane with no edges intersecting.

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

  • From Late Latin planarius (“relating to a plane"), from planum (“plane").

    From Wiktionary

  • Late Latin plānāris flat from Latin plānus plain

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Planar Sentence Examples

  • For example, when a planar fragment is fitted to an almost planar fragment one fit may involve inversion of the non-planar fragment.

  • Abstract In 1977, Appel and Haken proved that every planar graph is four vertex colourable.

  • Observations of individual SLAMS also suggests that they are not planar on these scales.

  • This suggests that the lower energy state is square planar.

  • Epithelial planar cell polarity refers to situations in which cells become polarized within the plane of an epithelium.

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Words Starting With

PPLPLA

Words Ending With

RARNAR

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planar

Words Starting With P and Ending With R

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With P6 Letter Words Ending With R