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complanar

complanar is the archaic form of coplanar.

Meaning of coplanar

Adjective

coplanar (not comparable)

  1. (usually lines or plane figures) Within the same plane.
  2. Orbiting a central celestial object within the same orbital plane.
    • Gliese 876’s third, innermost planet . . . is likely to be coplanar with its outer two companions.2009 January 9, Robert Naeye, “Exoplanets' Dance Reveals They're Coplanar”, in skyandtelescope.com, retrieved 09 Jan 2009

Origin of complanar

From com- + planar.

Questions about complanar

What is complanar the archaic form of?
Complanar is the archaic form of coplanar.

Words near complanar in the dictionary

  1. complaisantly
  2. complaisantness
  3. complaisaunce
  4. complanadine
  5. complanadines
  6. complanar
  7. complanate
  8. complanated
  9. complanates
  10. complanating
  11. complane

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Adapted from Wiktionary: complanar (page history and authors); coplanar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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