Planar is an adjective meaning "relating to a

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 ...

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Planar (computer graphics) In computer graphics, planar is the method of arranging pixel data into several '' bitplanes'' of RAM. Each bit in a bitplane is related to one pixel on the screen. Unlike packed, high color, or true color graphics, the whole dataset for an i ...

, computer graphics pixel information from several bitplanes * Planar (transmission line technologies), transmission lines with flat conductors * Planar, the structure resulting from the

planar process The planar process is a semiconductor device fabrication, manufacturing process used in the semiconductor industry to build individual components of a transistor, and in turn, connect those transistors together. It is the primary process by which ...

used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, such as planar transistors *

Planar graph In graph theory, a planar graph is a graph (discrete mathematics), graph that can be graph embedding, embedded in the plane (geometry), plane, i.e., it can be drawn on the plane in such a way that its edges intersect only at their endpoints. ...

, graph that can be drawn in the plane so that no edges cross * Planar mechanism, a system of parts whose motion is constrained to a two-dimensional plane * Planar Systems, an Oregon-headquartered manufacturer of digital displays *

Zeiss Planar The Zeiss Planar is a photographic lens designed by Paul Rudolph at Carl Zeiss Carl Zeiss (; 11 September 1816 – 3 December 1888) was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman. In 1846 he founded his workshop, whi ...

, photographic lens designed by Paul Rudolph at Carl Zeiss in 1896

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