Adjective

(en adjective)

(anatomy, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or comparable appendage

* {{quote-news, 1988, May 20, Jack Clark, Touch of Death, Chicago Reader citation

, passage="A latent print on the palmar surface of our hands and the plantar surfaces of our foot is a scan that is entirely different from the scan on the rest of our bodies. }}

(anatomy, and, medicine) In the direction of the palm

* {{quote-book, 2002, John Gray Seiler, Essentials of Hand Surgery citation

, passage= The long and ring superficialis tendons lie more palmar than the index and small.}}

(zoology) Of or relating to the underside of the wings of birds.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to a plane.

A planar projection of a three-dimensional object is its projection onto a plane.

Flat, two-dimensional.

(graph theory, of a graph) Able to be embedded in the plane with no edges intersecting.

A complete graph with more than four nodes is never planar .

(transistor chip, semiconductor devices) Having a flat profile, not etched into a mesa.