Horizontal vs Planar - What's the difference?
horizontal | planar | Related terms |
perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.
(marketing) Relating to horizontal markets.
(archaic) Pertaining to the horizon.
* 1667': As when the Sun new ris'n / Looks through the '''Horizontal misty Air — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 594-5
Of or pertaining to a plane.
Flat, two-dimensional.
(graph theory, of a graph) Able to be embedded in the plane with no edges intersecting.
(transistor chip, semiconductor devices) Having a flat profile, not etched into a mesa.
Horizontal is a related term of planar.
As adjectives the difference between horizontal and planar
is that horizontal is perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat while planar is of or pertaining to a plane.As a noun horizontal
is a horizontal component of a structure.horizontal
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(en adjective)Antonyms
* verticalDerived terms
* horizontallyplanar
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(en adjective)- A planar projection of a three-dimensional object is its projection onto a plane.
- A complete graph with more than four nodes is never planar .