Planar vs Shaper - What's the difference?
planar | shaper |
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.
One who shapes.
A machine tool in which a single-point cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating ram is traversed across the workpiece linearly. Shapers can generate various shapes, but were most especially employed in generating flat surfaces and keyways. The shaper is nowadays obsolescent, most of its applications being served by milling machines.
(surfing) A person who designs and builds surfboards.
As an adjective planar
is of or pertaining to a plane.As a noun shaper is
one who shapes.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 .
Derived terms
* antiplanar * nonplanar * synplanarshaper
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia shaper)- the shaper of one's fortunes
- The secret of those old shapers died with them. — Lowell.
- He apprenticed with several notable Southern California shapers before packing his bags for Hawaii — Tom Linker [http://www.longboard.net/jl_sfriedman.html]
