Planar vs Perpendicular - What's the difference?
planar | perpendicular |
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.
(geometry) At or forming a right angle (to).
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(geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.
As adjectives the difference between planar and perpendicular
is that planar is of or pertaining to a plane while perpendicular is (architecture) of a style of english gothic architecture from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.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 .
Derived terms
* antiplanar * nonplanar * synplanarperpendicular
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(wikipedia perpendicular)Adjective
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- In most houses, the walls are perpendicular to the floor .