Planar vs Outerplanar - What's the difference?
planar | outerplanar |
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.
(mathematics) Describing a graph having a planar embedding such that the vertices lie on a circle and the edges lie inside that circle
As adjectives the difference between planar and outerplanar
is that planar is of or pertaining to a plane while outerplanar is describing a graph having a planar embedding such that the vertices lie on a circle and the edges lie inside that circle.planar
English
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 .
