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planar

/ˈpleɪnə/

adjective

Meaning

  • Of or pertaining to a plane.

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

  • Flat, two-dimensional.

  • (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."

  • (transistor chip, semiconductor devices) Having a flat profile, not etched into a mesa.