(a.) Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
(a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.
(a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.
(a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
(a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.
(a.) To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.
(a.) To efface or remove.
(a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
(2) The Ta loop was a smooth, elongated ellipse in configuration and showed clockwise rotation in all planes, as did the P loop.
(3) Typically the iron-iron axis (gz) of the binuclear iron-sulfur clusters is in the membrane plane.
(4) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
(5) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
(6) Deviations in two planes simultaneously cause less error than deviation in one plane.
(7) Other fusiform cells of the cPVN are oriented in a rostral-caudal plane and are situated more medially in this subdivision.
(8) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
(9) All the wounded Britons have been repatriated , including four severely injured people who were brought back by an RAF C-17 transport plane.
(10) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
(11) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
(12) A technique is therefore described using 3-D images and reconstruction of high-resolution films, which allows rapid examination of the menisci in optimal planes.
(13) The technique of two-plane angiography of femoro-popliteal bypasses with 90 degrees knee flexion is described.
(14) Right ventricular volumes were determined in 12 patients with different levels of right and left ventricular function by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ECG gated multisection technique in planes perpendicular to the diastolic position of the interventricular septum.
(15) This provides a direct display, in the viewing plane, of the slice profile.
(16) The resistance is a complex function of the perfusion pressure and the cross-sectional area of the stenosis and cannot be accurately predicted from a single plane angiographic image.
(17) After 1 month, scaling and root planing had effected significant clinical improvement and significant shifts in the subgingival flora to a pattern more consistent with periodontal health; these changes were still evident at 3 months.
(18) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
(19) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
(20) The lower neck flexion is 35 degrees and extension of the plane of the face 15 degrees, each angle measured relative to horizontal.
Planimetry
Definition:
(n.) The mensuration of plane surfaces; -- distinguished from stereometry, or the mensuration of volumes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paraffin sections (8 microns) containing the medial habenular nucleus were stained with cresyl violet and both left and right medial habenular nuclei were measured by planimetry.
(2) Data of ether-extracted total fat content versus data of fat marbling planimetry correlated well with r = 0.9.
(3) beta-TG levels did not correlate with the volume of cerebral infarction as measured by planimetry from CT scans.
(4) Mean fiber area, determined by planimetry, was 49.1 and 34.5% greater following enlargement in male and female mice, respectively.
(5) Regurgitant volume was calculated from reverse aortic flow and was compared to jet length, area (by planimetry) and volume (from Simpson's rule).
(6) The lungs of bleomycin-treated dogs which received urokinase had less severe fibrosis and this was confirmed by morphometry with planimetry and the point counting method.
(7) In the interpretation of the tracings, significant differences were found for all measures, except planimetry; however, not all of these have the same practical implications.
(8) Gastric antral endoscopic pinch biopsies from a group of dyspeptic patients were analysed for acute and chronic inflammatory cell numbers in the lamina propria and surface epithelial layer using computer-linked graphic tablet planimetry, and independently graded for Campylobacter pylori (CP) infection using a visual scoring system with grade 1 assessed as patchy epithelial infection and grade 2 as a continuous layer of organisms on the mucosal surface extending into gastric pits.
(9) Amplitude, duration and magnitude (as measured by planimetry) of anal relaxation elicited by rectal distensions were related to rectal distending volume (P less than 0.001).
(10) Blood-brain barrier disruption was assessed by spread of Evans blue dye with planimetry.
(11) Human coronary arteries were perfusion-fixed; sectioned and their external and lumenal circumferences measured by microscopic planimetry.
(12) The surface areas of the wheal and flare responses were measured by planimetry.
(13) Planimetry of transmission electron micrographs showed 59% of the intraepithelial membranes were stained with lanthanum in the DNP-OA-sensitized and DNP-OA-challenged group; 39% in the saline-sensitized, DNP-OA-challenged group, and 26% in the DNP-OA-sensitized, BGG-challenged group.
(14) Planimetry of megakaryocytes (MK) was performed in bone marrow biopsies (BMBs) from patients with chronic myeloproliferative disorders (CMPD) to substantiate cytomorphologic differences in this cell lineage between the four main groups of CMPD.
(15) At the age of 7, mastoid X-rays were obtained and the air cell areas measured by planimetry.
(16) The menu for the data analysis provided for this device includes multilinear densitometry, with planimetry, area densitometry, measurement of anterior chamber depth and thickness of lens layers, determination of chamber angle and positioning of implanted intraocular lenses, and measurement of opaque areas in the retroillumination image.
(17) The effect of nitroglycerin and ibuprofen, given between 2 and 7 days after left anterior descending coronary artery ligation, on the mechanical resistance of the infarcted left ventricle to rupture or the rupture threshold (balloon technique), and on topography (computerized planimetry) and function (two-dimensional echocardiography) at 7 days (n = 32) and 42 days (n = 34) postligation was studied in 66 dogs randomly allocated to sham (no infarction, n = 22) and infarction subgroups (15 controls; 15 received nitroglycerin, 30 mg oral isosorbide dinitrate b.i.d.
(18) Three commonly used prostate volume measurement techniques were analyzed: planimetry, prolate ellipse volume calculation (HWL), and an ellipsoid volume measurement technique.
(19) NRL was quantified by planimetry of photographs of cut sections of brain.
(20) In this study we have measured gland size by planimetry,and cellular activity by autoradiography using tritiated thymidine and tritated histidine.