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planar

[play-ner] / ˈpleɪ nər /


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OpenAI researchers’ proof—or really, disproof—of Erdős’s planar unit-distance problem is the kind of milestone that proponents of AI’s use in advanced mathematics have been waiting for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

To solve this problem, researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Mainz developed a planar electron tunneling spectroscopy method that can operate under these extreme pressures.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025

He had spent his life building a planar model of his ascent to the presidency, only to get whacked in the head by an unforeseen z-axis.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2025

Previously, achieving π-stacking in similar norcorroles failed because hydrogen-bonding interactions between the side chains opposed the face-to-face stacking of the planar antiaromatic units.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

It was composed of dazzling blue metal with an almost mirror shine to it, as smooth as water, and nowhere rectilinear or planar, but all flowing contours, as supple as skin.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor


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