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adjective

planar

involving or having two dimensions

In a sentence

Six example sentences with planar, each labelled with its topic.

  • The facade is deliberately planar, a flat sheet of limestone with no cornice, reveal, or shadow anywhere on it.

    Architecture

  • Early arcade titles were strictly planar, with everything sliding across a single flat field and nothing ever moving toward you.

    Gaming

  • Mondrian's late canvases stay resolutely planar, refusing any hint of depth so the eye never travels behind the surface.

    Art

  • A planar graph can be drawn with no crossing edges, which is why four colors suffice for any flat map.

    Science

  • The planar transistor of 1959 laid every component flat on one silicon surface, making the integrated circuit possible.

    Technology

  • A planar bone scan shows the skeleton as a flat image, so a small lesion hidden behind a rib can be missed.

    Medicine

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