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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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