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Smoothing vs Planar - What's the difference?

smoothing | planar |

As a verb smoothing

is .

As a noun smoothing

is the act by which something is made smooth.

As an adjective planar is

of or pertaining to a plane.

smoothing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is made smooth.
  • planar

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a plane.
  • A planar projection of a three-dimensional object is its projection onto a plane.
  • Flat, two-dimensional.
  • (graph theory, of a graph) Able to be embedded in the plane with no edges intersecting.
  • A complete graph with more than four nodes is never planar .
  • (transistor chip, semiconductor devices) Having a flat profile, not etched into a mesa.
  • Derived terms

    * antiplanar * nonplanar * synplanar