Planes
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Plane or Planes may refer to:
Physical objects
- Airplane (Aeroplane), a fixed-wing aircraft
- Plane (tool), a tool or machine for shaving wood
- Platanus, a genus of trees with the common name "plane"
- Acer pseudoplatanus, a tree species sometimes called "plane"
- Planes, a genus of crabs in the family Grapsidae called "weed crabs", containing e.g. the Blue Pacific weed crab (P. cyaneus) and the Gulfweed crab (P. minutus)
- Plane River, a river in eastern Germany
Concepts
- Plane (mathematics), theoretical surface which has infinite width and length, zero thickness, and zero curvature.
- Lattice plane, a plane in a crystal structure .
- Clipping plane, in computer graphics.
- Plane (metaphysics), in theories of emanation, as in Neoplatonism, an emergent state, level or region of reality, emanating from the Divine and culminating in the Physical plane.
- Plane (Dungeons & Dragons), a plane of existence within the role-playing game.
- Plane (Magic: The Gathering), a plane of existence within the trading card game.
- Plane of immanence, a philosophical concept.
- Planing (sailing), a method of travelling quickly across water by using speed to lift the hull out of the water.
- Plane sailing, an approximation used in navigation
- Planes of Existence (talker), a well known talker. A plane was the name for one of the sub-sections of the talker.
See also
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