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coplanarity

noun

Etymology

From coplanar + -ity.

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

Definitions

  1. The state or characteristic of being within the same plane.

  2. The state or characteristic of orbiting a central celestial object within the same…

    The state or characteristic of orbiting a central celestial object within the same orbital plane.

    • Gliese 876 affords us by far our most detailed and accurate map of any extrasolar planetary system in the solar neighborhood, and […] it is reassuring to see a kinship in the most fundamental property of system coplanarity.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for coplanarity. 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