English

Pronunciation

• Homophones: plainer, planer
• Rhymes: -eɪnə(r)

Adjective

1. of, or pertaining to, a plane
2. flat, two-dimensional
3. of a graph, able to be embedded in the plane with no edges intersecting

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

Related terms

• plane

• Planar (computer graphics), computer graphics pixel information from several bitplanes
• Planar graph, graph that can be drawn so that no edges intersect (or that can be embedded) in the plane
• Plane (mathematics), a name for something made up of flat planes or pertaining to planes
• Planar Systems, U.S. digital display manufacturing corporation based in Hillsboro, Oregon
• Zeiss Planar, photographic lens designed by Paul Rudolph at Carl Zeiss in 1896