Plane most often refers to: * Aero- or

airplane An airplane (American English), or aeroplane (Commonwealth English), informally plane, is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, Propeller (aircraft), propeller, or rocket engine. Airplanes come in a vari ...

, a powered, fixed-wing aircraft *

Plane (geometry) In mathematics, a Euclidean plane is a Euclidean space of dimension two, denoted \textbf^2 or \mathbb^2. It is a geometric space in which two real numbers are required to determine the position of each point. It is an affine space, which in ...

, a flat, 2-dimensional surface *

Plane (mathematics) In mathematics, a plane is a two-dimensional space or flat surface that extends indefinitely. A plane is the two-dimensional analogue of a point (zero dimensions), a line (one dimension) and three-dimensional space. When working exclusively ...

, generalizations of a geometrical plane Plane or planes may also refer to:

Biology

* Plane (tree) or ''Platanus'', wetland native plant * ''Planes'' (genus), marsh crabs in Grapsidae * '' Bindahara phocides'', the plane butterfly of Asia

Maritime transport

Planing (boat) Planing ( ) is the mode of operation for a waterborne craft in which its weight is predominantly supported by hydrodynamic lift, rather than hydrostatic lift (buoyancy). Many forms of marine transport make use of planing, including fast fer ...

, where weight is predominantly supported by hydrodynamic lift * ''Plane'' (wherry), a Norfolk canal boat, in use 1931–1949

Music

*"Planes", a 1976 song by

Colin Blunstone Colin Edward Michael Blunstone (born 24 June 1945) is an English singer and songwriter. In a career spanning more than 60 years, Blunstone came to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Rock music, rock band the Zombies, which rel ...

*"Planes (Experimental Aircraft)", a 1989 song by Jefferson Airplane from ''

Jefferson Airplane Jefferson Airplane was an American Rock music, rock band formed in San Francisco, California, in 1965. One of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock, the group defined the San Francisco Sound and was the first from the San Francisco Bay Area, ...

'' *" Planez", originally "Planes", a 2015 song by Jeremih *"The Plane", a 1987 song on the '' Empire of the Sun'' soundtrack *"The Plane", a 1997 song by

Kinito Méndez Kinito Méndez, born José del Carmen Ramírez Méndez on November 18, 1963, is a merengue music singer. Biography Mendez started his career in 1988 as one of the co-founders of the merengue band La Cocoband, along with Alfonzo " Pochy Familia" ...

Other entertainment

* Plane (''Dungeons & Dragons''), any fictional realm of the D&D roleplaying game's multiverse * ''Planes'' (film), a 2013 animation **'' Planes: Fire & Rescue'', a 2014 sequel * ''Plane'' (film), a 2023 film * Plane (''Magic: The Gathering''), any fictional realm of the multiverse the card game is set in

Places

* Plane (Han Pijesak), Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Plane, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina *

Plane (river) The Plane is a river in Brandenburg, Germany, left tributary of the Havel. Its total length is . The Plane originates in the High Fläming Nature Park, near Rabenstein. It flows north through Planetal and Golzow. The Plane joins the Havel in ...

, eastern Germany *

Plane Island Plane Island (; Latin: Phalans Insula) also known as Piana or andin Tunisian Arabicas (Standard , ''al-Jazira al-Munbasita''), is a flat, rocky island in the Mediterranean Sea roughly off Cape Farina, Tunisia. It has a lighthouse. History Pla ...

, off Cape Farina, Tunisia *

Pláně Pláně is a municipality and village in Plzeň-North District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants. Pláně lies approximately north of Plzeň and west of Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List ...

, Czech Republic *

Planès Planès () is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Planès is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades. Planès station has rail connections to Villef ...

, France *

Planes, Alicante Planes (Valencian and Spanish: ) is a municipality in Spain. This hamlet lies in the Comtat region of the Valencian Community, Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with terr ...

, Spain

Religion

Plane (esotericism) In esoteric cosmology, a plane is conceived as a subtle state, level, or region of reality, each plane corresponding to some type, kind, or category of being. The concept may be found in religious and Western esotericism, esoteric teachings wh ...

, a state, level or region of reality *

Planē (mythology) Planē or ''Plane'' (), in ancient Greek religion, was an abstract goddess, the personification of the concept of error (her name deriving from the Greek term for 'wandering' planet.html" ;"title="ee planet">ee planet ). Though her mythology is ...

, an ancient Greek goddess

Technology

Plane (tool) A hand plane is a tool for shaping wood using muscle power to force the cutting blade over the wood surface. Some rotary power planers are motorized power tools used for the same types of larger tasks, but are unsuitable for fine-scale planing ...

, a tool for shaping wood *

Plane (Unicode) In the Unicode standard, a plane is a contiguous group of 65,536 (216) code points. There are 17 planes, identified by the numbers 0 to 16, which corresponds with the possible values 00–1016 of the first two positions in six position hexadecimal ...

, in the Universal Coded Character Set, a continuous group of 2¹⁶ code points * Plane, part of a

telecommunications network A telecommunications network is a group of Node (networking), nodes interconnected by telecommunications links that are used to exchange messages between the nodes. The links may use a variety of technologies based on the methodologies of circuit ...

structure