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Planar Definition

planar

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English

Etymology

From Late Latin planarius (“relating to a plane”), from planum (“plane”)

Pronunciation

Adjective

planar (comparative more planar, superlative most planar)

  1. of, or pertaining to, a plane
  2. flat, two-dimensional
  3. (graph theory) of a graph, able to be embedded in the plane with no edges intersecting
    A complete graph with more than four nodes is never planar.

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