Linear vs Planar - What's the difference?
linear | planar |
Having the form of a line; straight.
Of or relating to lines.
Made in a step-by-step, logical manner.
(botany, of leaves) Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides.
(mathematics) Of or relating to a class of polynomial of the form .
(physics) A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).
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.
As adjectives the difference between linear and planar
is that linear is having the form of a line; straight while planar is of or pertaining to a plane.As a proper noun Linear
is a comet, cataloged as “C/1999 S4”, discovered on September 27, 1999, by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program in New Mexico. (See ) Sometimes spelled LINEAR.As an acronym LINEAR
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(wikipedia linear)Adjective
(en adjective)See also
* quadratic * cubic * quartic * quintic * linear algebra * arealAnagrams
* ----planar
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Adjective
(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 .