How to Use planar in a Sentence

planar

adjective
  • The light is then fed into a planar lens.
    — Josué J. López, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The graph is also planar, meaning it can be drawn so no edges cross.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Pratt believes his team can make a leggy, planar robo-bird that outruns an ostrich.
    — David Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The planar lens both collimates and steers the light where it is then scattered out-of-plane by a grating.
    — Josué J. López, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The first chip was made in a 65-nm process, which uses planar transistors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Water oozes and trickles and puddles up through the steamy, planar landscape.
    — By Michael Browning, miamiherald, 25 Aug. 2015
  • Each waveguide provides a distinct path that feeds into the planar lens and corresponds to one beam in free space.
    — Josué J. López, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Remarkably small and lightweight for a set of planar magnetics.
    — Michael Calore, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2016
  • The book imagines two-dimensional beings living on a planar world that has only length and width.
    — David Warmflash, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2014
  • Shaping and sizing the winglet properly is crucial to getting a vortex away from the flat, planar part of the wing Clark says.
    — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 5 July 2020
  • But in some cases, the embedding of a graph itself might be disguising a way the edge could be inserted in planar fashion.
    — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Each die has different test designs of the planar lens solid-state beam steering technology.
    — Josué J. López, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The ultra-thin, planar magnetic diaphragms are designed for a fast, precise response and rich detail.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In other places, however, the Inca built in a polygonal style, in which the sides of the rocks are planar to ensure tight joints.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2021
  • As Numberphile illustrates, the trick is to change the shape of your gears so have anything but flat, circular, planar ones.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2016
  • Even the TurtleBot 3 is $600, and only comes with a planar lidar.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Conventional electronics are all built on the planar rigid surfaces of silicon wafers.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2011
  • The use of planar magnetic drivers coupled with a custom fit should produce an exceptionally smooth sound.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 4 May 2022
  • In this case, for decades, the planar unit distance problem rewarded a certain kind of mathematical instinct.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Finally, be sure to look at the weight of the headphones, as planar magnetic models are often heavier than dynamic headphones.
    — Camryn Rabideau, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The pre-filtering module selects planar macro-features from the input clouds, discarding clutter.
    — Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2017
  • The room’s four walls are giant, interactive planar screens, connected to laptops through a simple barcode device.
    — Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • For many years, researchers there used planar silicon sensors in collider experiments.
    — Liz Wegerer, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Tiny quartz and feldspar crystals, no bigger than a human hair, that carried microscopic planar deformation features.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
  • In conventional planar transistors, the gate sits atop a flat silicon channel, controlling the flow of current between the source and drain from only one side.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Headphones with planar magnetic drivers tend to be less common, and more aspirational, than headphones with dynamic drivers.
    — Simon Lucas, WIRED, 2 Aug. 2024
  • To support this, the institute has come up with new hardware, including a planar galvanometer scanner for ultra-fast, high-precision beam steering.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The diaphragm of the planar magnetic drivers used in these new earbuds is made from ultra-thin material that provides an excellent transient response.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Edifier is an audio brand that’s been making a name for itself lately with an excellent range of wireless speakers and even a pair of planar magnetic wireless headphones.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The operator specifies a goal location in the world, which is modeled as planar regions using the robot’s perception sensors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 July 2019

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