PLANAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does planar mean? 

• PLANAR (adjective)
  The adjective PLANAR has 1 sense:

1. involving or having two dimensions

  Familiarity information: PLANAR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Involving or having two dimensions

Synonyms:

planar; two-dimensional

Similar:

coplanar (lying in the same plane)

flat (having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness)

placoid; platelike (as the hard flattened scales of e.g. sharks)

flattened; planate (having been flattened)

tabular (flat; like a table in form)

Antonym:

cubic (having the shape of a cube; having three dimensions)

linear (of or in or along or relating to a line; involving or having a single dimension)

Derivation:

plane ((mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape)

 Context examples 

2 views in planar imaging that are acquired 180 degrees apart around the subject, such as anterior and posterior views.

(Conjugate View, NCI Thesaurus)

A hybrid polar-planar compound with potential antineoplastic activity that induces terminal differentiation, inhibits cell growth, and causes apoptosis in several tumor cell lines.

(Hexamethylene Bisacetamide, NCI Thesaurus)

Planar imaging that includes kilovoltage images.

(Kilovoltage Planar Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

Planar imaging that includes megavoltage images.

(Megavoltage Planar Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

A device designed to create an air current through the rotation of a planar surface.

(Fan Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

A point that is the center of mass of an object of uniform density or the geometric center of a planar object.

(Centroid, NCI Thesaurus)

Some of the quartz sand coming from the crater had planar deformation features indicative of a violent impact; this is conclusive evidence that the depression beneath the Hiawatha Glacier is a meteorite crater, said associate professor Nicolaj Larsen of Aarhus University in Denmark, one of the authors of the study..

(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)