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coplanar

adj
/kəʊˈpleɪnə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From co- + planar.

  1. derived from *pleh₂-✻
  2. derived from plānus — “flat”, “level”
  3. borrowed from plānārius
  4. prefixed as coplanar — “co + planar”

Definitions

  1. Within the same plane.

  2. Orbiting a central celestial object within the same orbital plane.

    • Gliese 876’s third, innermost planet . . . is likely to be coplanar with its outer two companions.

The neighborhood

Derived

coplanarly, noncoplanar

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for coplanar. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA