Planar vs Planer - What's the difference?
planar | planer |
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.
(plane)
A woodworking tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.
A large machine tool in which the workpiece is traversed linearly (by means of a reciprocating bed) beneath a single-point cutting tool. (Analogous to a shaper but larger and with the workpiece moving instead of the tool.) Planers can generate various shapes, but were most especially used to generate large, accurate flat surfaces. The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded by large milling machines.
(archaic, printing) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.
As adjectives the difference between planar and planer
is that planar is of or pertaining to a plane while planer is comparative of plane.As a noun planer is
a woodworking tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.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 * synplanarplaner
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Adjective
(head)Noun
(en noun)- (Hansard)