Planiform

Quick meaning: Planiform is an adjective meaning Having a plane surface.

Meaning

Having a plane surface.

Example Sentences

a planiform, gliding, or arthrodial articulation

Some computer models allow periods of convection dominated by plumes, and others dominated by overturning planiform cells similar to the present Earth.

Towards the end of the seventeenth century, a new style of planiform carving emerged on church exteriors in the Andean altiplano from Arequipa to Lake Titicaca and across the Bolivian highlands.

The articulations of the second row of the carpus, which constitutes what may be named the pro-carpus, are likewise of the planiform kind, and are completed by palmar, dorsal and interosseous ligaments, that between the os magnum and unciform being very strong.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include planate, planelike, tabular, curviplanar, uniplanar, uniplane.

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