Coplanarity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Coplanarity is a noun meaning (geometry, of at least two things, usually lines) The state or characteristic of being within the same plane.
Meaning
(geometry, of at least two things, usually lines) The state or characteristic of being within the same plane.
More Meanings
- (astronomy, of multiple planets or other orbiting bodies) The state or characteristic of orbiting a central celestial object within the same orbital plane.
Example Sentences
Gliese 876 affords us by far our most detailed and accurate map of any extrasolar planetary system in the solar neighborhood, and […] it is reassuring to see a kinship in the most fundamental property of system coplanarity.
Word Forms
- coplanarities
- co-planarity
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include co-planarity, synplanarity, collinearity, paralinearity, duality, colinearization.
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