planar

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At the Tunguska site, researchers found shocked quartz showing clear planar fractures, some of which were filled with meltglass.

From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2025

Inside its granite layers, researchers discovered numerous grains of quartz marked by tiny structures known as planar deformation features.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 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

As art objects, they draw from ’60s minimalism: her monoliths, prisms, cubes, spheres, matrices, labyrinths and French curves are finished in porcelain-white, each a pristine, planar specimen.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2024

Assuming there are fifteen grains per linear inch, there are 15 x 15 per planar inch and 153 grains per cubic inch.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos