ground-plan

Noun

ground-plan (plural ground-plans)

1. A diagram showing set layout.
   • Complex shows may require more than one ground-plan; one for each set-change is common.2001, John Blurton, Scenery, →ISBN
2. A floorplan.
   • It was a castellated mansion as regular as a chessboard on its ground-plan, ornamented with makebelieve bastions and machicolations, behind which were stacks of battlemented chimneys.1891, Thomas Hardy, The Duchess of Hamptonshire
3. A framework or pattern.
   • What this book has sought to do is to lay out the ground-plan and describe the most salient features of what may come to be a new school of economic thought, which has here been called 'living economics'.2006, Paul Ekins, Manfred Max-Neef, Real Life Economics, →ISBN
4. The hypothetical ancestor of a clade.
   • The ground-plan of the Chilognatha thus is a reconstruction of the species from which all chilognathan millipedes have descended— the ancestral chilognathan.1990, Alessandro Minelli, Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Myriapodology, →ISBN