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outerplanar

outerplanar adjective: having a planar embedding such that the vertices lie on a circle and the edges lie inside that circle.

Adjective

outerplanar (not comparable)

  1. Having a planar embedding such that the vertices lie on a circle and the edges lie inside that circle.

Origin of outerplanar

From outer + planar.

Words formed from outerplanar

Questions about outerplanar

What does outerplanar mean?
Outerplanar means having a planar embedding such that the vertices lie on a circle and the edges lie inside that circle.
What part of speech is outerplanar?
Outerplanar is an adjective.

Words near outerplanar in the dictionary

  1. outerly
  2. outermore
  3. outermost
  4. outermosts
  5. outerness
  6. outerplanar
  7. outerplanarity
  8. outers
  9. outershell
  10. outershells
  11. outerside

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