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astral plane

noun

Definitions

  1. A supernatural plane of existence consisting of the world of the celestial spheres,…

    A supernatural plane of existence consisting of the world of the celestial spheres, propounded by esoteric philosophies, some religious teachings, and New Age thought.

    • Incidentally, such beings may be said to have an existence of a sort upon the lower astral plane; they are elementals created by man's evil desires and unclean thoughts.
    • The realm of the astral plane is an intermediate realm; below is the world of matter, above is the world of pure Being.

  2. A Unicode plane (range of code points) above the Basic Multilingual Plane

    A Unicode plane (range of code points) above the Basic Multilingual Plane; any plane beyond U+FFFF.

    • Emoji are in the astral plane.
    • The answer was UTF-16. Two blocks of 16-bit values were set aside for use as special values for encoding astral plane characters.

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