Sentence examples for to be plane from inspiring English sources

The liquid rich zones, appearing to be plane from the outside, show a non-uniform distribution inside the packing.

The stress field is assumed to be plane stress or plane strain and all three-dimensional effects are disregarded.

A pilot involved in a renewed search for the adventurer Steve Fossett spotted what he believed to be plane wreckage Wednesday in rugged east-central California mountains.

The sliding and rolling contact between a roller and the half space is assumed to be plane strain and can be approximated by a trapezoidal as well as a Hertzian load distribution.

The material behaviour is assumed to be plane stress orthotropic for a particular load ratio, while the elastic properties can vary with the load ratio in order to represent the complex interaction between warp and fill yarns.

Although American officials dealing with the issue do not believe there are any Americans still alive, they would like to get more information from the Vietnamese on what happened to Americans who were known to have been captured during the war but who were never accounted for and to recover the remains of Americans from areas where there were known to be plane crashes.

Half the stars in the sky seemed to be planes.

Then each has to be planed down and tapered in precise gradations so it flexes evenly.

Turn the knob and lift at the same time; that door-jamb's got to be planed.

Co-founder and CEO Justin Fuisz told me that most existing AR technologies (including Apple's ARKit) tend to be "plane-based" — in other words, while they can make something cool appear against a real-world background, it's usually on a flat surface, like a table or the floor.

Yeah, those things in the upper-left are supposed to be planes.