The construction shows that the wavefronts remain planar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Optics basics: What is a wave? Part III: Diffraction « Skulls in the Stars] Reference

One of them was something called a planar transistor, created by Jean Hoerni.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Accidental Entrepreneur] Reference

Wikipedia suggests: "Something is called planar if it is made up of flat planes, or pertaining to planes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [HH Com 221 (217)] Reference

Dr. STROSCIO: So graphene is essentially in a planar system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Graphene: A Sandbox For Physicists, 1 Atom Thick] Reference

· Bio-engineering reduces the instances of shallow planar sliding2.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 3] Reference

Small rings of three, four of five atoms are rather rigid and planar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1969 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Reduction of the eddy currents by means of slots in planar conductors.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. Magnetic Field] Reference

The revolution against the planar culture began with that simple fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cities In Flight]

If we switch to a frame in which the planar mass is stationary, we get.    From Wordnik.com.  [arxiv Find: Universal Quantum Mechanics] Reference

This detail shows his characteristic juicy and planar handling of form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dean Cornwell Article] Reference

A deep planar slide on the Arniko Highway has removed a portion of the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [1.1 Problems of slopes and their solutions] Reference

With a magnificent roar, the ship nosed up and away from the planar envelop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Streams]

One by one the disturbed beams lie back down, parallel, perpendicular, planar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

Thaddeus is a planar scholar who has an uncanny knack for prying open dimensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gamemastering Is An Art, Part VII: Catching Up] Reference

Mapping the planar gates in Sigil is a keen past-time for some scholars and mages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Worlds of D&D: Planescape] Reference

Therefore, this would be more appropriately titled ... er ... planar climate change?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Rehabilitating Pharaoh] Reference

As long as some consensus remained among the agrav units, it still had planar aspect.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

And twice you used other-planar creatures, chancing exposure of our existence here" ".    From Wordnik.com.  [This Scepter'd Isle]

Sigil is also home to many portals or planar doors leading anywhere in the multiverse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Worlds of D&D: Planescape] Reference

Seifert Surface: presumably if we ever get 2 sided planar sculpties, theyd have 2 faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Prim Interface - SLOG] Reference

Later work focused on individual PCB congeners, with the greatest emphasis on the co-planar PCBs.    From Wordnik.com.  [PCBs] Reference

Here we see on the positive side radial forms appear, on the negative side planar-spherical forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

Any slope that is liable to creeping planar mass failures and where access for machinery is feasible.    From Wordnik.com.  [2.1 Retaining walls] Reference

Now think of putting postage stamp sized flat planar elements at many points, or every point, on the sphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

In planar conductors voltages are induced by magnetic flux variations in the same manner as in wires and coils.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. Magnetic Field] Reference

One of the features of the corrin nucleus in the natural compounds is that even the inner ring is not quite planar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The X-Ray Analysis Of Complicated Molecules] Reference

Rectangles - A closed planar quadrilateral with opposite sides of equal lengths A and B, and with four right angles.    From Wordnik.com.  [lethalpickle Diary Entry] Reference

If you want your character to create a "wall", then you the player have to learn about planar geometry, and so forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will we ever see this on a resume?] Reference

Some diploids produce branches at 180 degrees to each other, giving the trees a planar or two-dimensional appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 27] Reference

"TFPV is also much lighter than conventional PV and can be more easily applied to curved and non-planar surfaces ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [Judy Dugan: Cheaper Than Coal, On the Road?] Reference

For large planar surfaces, pre-fabricated hardened compound plates, special threaded fittings, etc., are available on the market.    From Wordnik.com.  [11.1 Welding additives] Reference

Many of the adverse effects of these co-planar PCBs are similar to the adverse effects of dioxins, and other dioxin-like chemicals.    From Wordnik.com.  [PCBs] Reference

The 3D vibration has the scalar, 1/1, three linear vibrations, three planar vibrations, and one cubic vibration, as a set, you say?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss] Reference

The effect of such planar theories of reading is that allegory becomes more mechanical in theory than it can or need ever be in practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference