planar

About 2.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or pertaining to a plane.

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

2. adjective Flat, two-dimensional.
3. adjective Able to be embedded in the plane with no edges intersecting.

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

4. adjective Having a flat profile, not etched into a mesa.

Similar words

planate tabular flat two-dimensional coplanar flattened platelike placoid plane map

Often followed by

and surface structure surfaces graph imaging or graphs waveguide

Word family

planarities planarity