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PLANE FIGURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Synonyms:
plane figure; two-dimensional figure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("plane figure" is a kind of...):
figure (a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plane figure"):
heart (a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines)
polygon; polygonal shape (a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides)
conic; conic section ((geometry) a curve generated by the intersection of a plane and a circular cone)
oblong (a plane figure that deviates from a square or circle due to elongation)
hemicycle; semicircle (a plane figure with the shape of half a circle)
sector (a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle)
star (a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem)
paraboloid (a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis)
ellipsoid (a surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles)
figure 8; figure eight; figure of eight (a two-dimensional figure having the shape of the number eight)
tree; tree diagram (a figure that branches from a single root)