Plane vs Elevation - What's the difference?
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Of a surface: flat or level.
A level or flat surface.
(geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
A level of existence or development. (eg'', ''astral plane )
A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
(computing, Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.
(anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
To smooth (wood) with a plane.
An airplane; an aeroplane.
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, title= (nautical) To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water.
To glide or soar.
(senseid)(countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus .
(Northern UK) A sycamore.
The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation to sainthood; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.
The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill.
The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star.
The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction.
(lb) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.
(lb) The raising of the —representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.
As nouns the difference between plane and elevation
is that plane is (label) the thing, the point, the interesting thing, the main interest in something, unusualness, speciality while elevation is elevation (height above something).As an adverb plane
is (label) particularly, especially, certainly.plane
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . The word was introduced in the seventeenth century to distinguish the geometrical senses from the other senses of plain.Adjective
(er)Noun
(en noun)Hyponyms
* (mathematics) real plane, complex plane * (anatomy) coronal plane, frontal plane, sagittal plane, transverse planeDerived terms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl), fromSee also
* rhykenologistVerb
(plan)Etymology 3
Abbreviated from aeroplane .Noun
(en noun)Solar-powered travel, passage=The plane is travelling impossibly slowly – 30km an hour – when it gently noses up and leaves the ground. With air beneath them, the rangy wings seem to gain strength; the fuselage that on the ground seemed flimsy becomes elegant, like a crane vaunting in flight. It seems not to fly, though, so much as float.}}