Plane

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Plane or planes may refer to:

Plane or aircraft

• Airplane or aeroplane
  • Airliner, an airplane for transporting passengers and cargo
• Fixed-wing aircraft

Science and technology

• Plane (geometry), abstract 2-dimensional surface with indeterminate width and length, zero thickness and zero curvature
  • Lattice plane, a plane in a crystal structure
  • Clipping plane, in computer graphics
• Planing (boat), a method of travelling quickly across water by using speed to lift the hull out of the water
• Platanus, a genus of trees with the common name "plane"

• Acer pseudoplatanus, an unrelated tree species sometimes confused with the planes, owing to a resemblance in their leaf shape

• Bindahara phocides, a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae
• Planes (genus), a genus of crabs in the family Grapsidae called "weed crabs"
• Plane (Unicode), in Unicode, a big range of 65,536 (=2¹⁶) code points
• Plane, a conceptual part of a telecommunications network
• Anatomical plane, a hypothetical plane used to transect the body

Entertainment

• "Planes", a 1976 song by Colin Blunstone
• "The Plane", a 1987 song on the Empire of the Sun soundtrack
• "The Plane" or "El Avión", a 1997 song by Kinito Méndez
• Planes (film), a 2013 3D animated film produced by DisneyToon Studios and a spin-off of Pixar's Cars franchise
• Plane (Dungeons & Dragons), a distinct location in the multiverse in Dungeons & Dragons
• Plane (Magic: The Gathering), a unique universe in the multiverse of Magic: The Gathering
• Planes: Fire & Rescue, a 2014 sequel to the 2013 film
• "Planez", a 2015 song by Jeremih

Other uses

• Plane (tool), a woodworking tool to smooth surfaces
• Plane (river), a river in eastern Germany
• Plane (wherry), a Norfolk wherry in service 1931–1949
• Planē (mythology), ancient Greek goddess
• Plane (esotericism), an emergent state, level or region of reality
• Planès, a commune in the south of France
• Planes, Alicante, a municipality in the province of Alicante, Spain

See also

• Plane of immanence, a philosophical concept
• Plane sailing, an approximation used in navigation
• Plain (disambiguation)
• Plano (disambiguation)
• Planar (disambiguation)