groundplan

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1. 1

   A diagram showing the physical layout of a set, especially the placement of structures on…

   A diagram showing the physical layout of a set, especially the placement of structures on the stage, as opposed to items on the walls or suspended from the ceiling.

   • In some cases, coordination between the lighting and scene designer may result in a preliminary scenic groundplan that indicates not only all of the scenic and masking information, but temporary lighting positions as well.
2. 2

   A diagram, usually to scale, showing the layout of the ground level of a building or…

   A diagram, usually to scale, showing the layout of the ground level of a building or other physical structure; floorplan.

   • Here the destruction is even more complete, and it was very difficult to trace the original groundplan.
   • An example of the groundplan arrangement of boreholes in a multi-row curtain is pictured in Fig. 3.99.
   • Roriczer begins, “If you wish to draw the groundplan for a pinnacle, according to the stonemason's art and with the correct geometry, then begin by drawing a square, as it is shown here with the letters a, b, c, d.”
3. 3

   A framework or pattern showing the form of something, without all the details.

   • Remarkedly enough, the frame or the groundplan as the innate program appears to be one of the central themes of cypbernetics and of the recently emerging compuational paradigm.
   • The specific design or groundplan may be new, but the building blocks were already there for the poet to assemble.
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      A hypothetical anatomical form from which members of a clade are adaptations.

      • A somewhat detailed, and largely innovative reconstruction of the groundplan of hexapod integumental structure has been worked out by Kukalova-Peck (1991, 1994, 1997, this volume).
      • His groundplan/divergence method was used by other students and workers (e.g., Mickel 1962; Scora 1967; and Fryxell 1971) and represented the principal thrust of cladistics among botanists at that time.

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