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planar

[pley-ner] / ˈpleɪ nər /


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To solve this problem, researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Mainz developed a planar electron tunneling spectroscopy method that can operate under these extreme pressures.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025

He had spent his life building a planar model of his ascent to the presidency, only to get whacked in the head by an unforeseen z-axis.

From Slate • Sep. 27, 2025

While their experiments so far were done with a two-dimensional planar electrode, most industrial reactions are run in three-dimensional vessels filled with powders.

From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2024

As art objects, they draw from ’60s minimalism: her monoliths, prisms, cubes, spheres, matrices, labyrinths and French curves are finished in porcelain-white, each a pristine, planar specimen.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2024

It was composed of dazzling blue metal with an almost mirror shine to it, as smooth as water, and nowhere rectilinear or planar, but all flowing contours, as supple as skin.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor