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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Of a surface: flat or level.

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Noun:

  • A level of existence. (''eg'', ''astral plane'')
  • An airplane; an aeroplane.
  • A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
  • Unicode Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.
  • Northern UK A sycamore.
  • countable A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
  • botany A deciduous tree of the genus ''Platanus''.
  • geometry A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).

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Verb:

  • nautical To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water.
  • To glide or soar.
  • transitive To smooth (wood) with a plane.

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