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    Plane
    Level surface. Used in photography chiefly in respect to focal plane, an imaginary level surface perpendicular to the lens axis in which the lens is intended to form an image. When the camera is loaded the focal plane is occupied by the film surface.
    Found op http://www.rodsmith.org.uk/photographic%20glossary/rods%20photographic%20gl
    
    
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    plane
    A white, close-grained and tough timber often used by late 18th and early 19thC cabinet-makers as a substitute for beech, especially for the production of painted chairs and the underframing of card tables and pembroke tables.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php
    
    
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    Plane
    Plane noun [ French, from Latin platanus , Greek ..., from ... broad; -- so called on account of its broad leaves and spreading form. See Place , and confer Platane , Plantain the tree.] (Botany) Any tree of the genus ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/99
    
    
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    Plane
    Plane adjective [ Latin planus : confer French plan . See Plan , adjective ] Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface. » In s...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/99
    
    
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    Plane
    Plane noun [ French plane , Latin plana . See Plane , v. & adjective ] 1. (Geom.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/100
    
    
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    Plane
    Plane transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Planed ; present participle & verbal noun Planing .] [ Confer French planer , Latin planare , from planus . See
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/100
    
    
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    Plane
    Plane intransitive verb Of a boat, to lift more or less out of the water while in motion, after the manner of a hydroplane; to hydroplane.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/100
    
    
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    plane
    1. To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank. ... 2. To efface or remove. 'He planed away the names . . . Written on his tables.' (Chaucer) ... 3. Figuratively, to make plain or smooth. ...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?plane
    
    
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    plane
    carpenter`s plane noun a carpenter`s hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood; `the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=plane
    
    
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    plane
    sheet noun (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape; `we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane`; `any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=plane
    
    
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    plane
    noun a level of existence or development; `he lived on a worldly plane`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=plane
    
    
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    plane
    planing machine noun a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=plane
    
    
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    plane
    (plān) a flat surface determined by the position of three points in space. an imaginary flat surface that divides the body into sections. adj., pla´nar., adj. a specified level, as the plane of anesthesia. to rub away or abrade; see also planing. a superfic...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001
    
    

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