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What does planar mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word planar? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to a plane.
  2. Flat, two-dimensional.
  3. (graph theory, of a graph) Able to be embedded in the plane with no edges intersecting.
  4. (transistor chip, semiconductor devices) Having a flat profile, not etched into a mesa.
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We have used a microfabricated planar quadrupole as a test bed for evaluating DEP-based traps, using polystyrene beads as a model for cells.
Rosenquist transforms the materially disjunctive qualities of collage into the planar unity of painting.
The result is a division of the initial planar shape into several pieces with ragged fractal edges.
Several such kinks spaced in helical phase will yield a molecule with a more or less planar curvature.
Associated with the folding is an axial planar foliation, which is especially strong at flow unit boundaries.
The sandstones show variable grading, with planar, rippled and undulatory lamination.

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