Plane vs. Polygon — What's the Difference?

(Mathematics) A surface containing all the straight lines that connect any two points on it.

In geometry, a polygon () is a plane figure that is described by a finite number of straight line segments connected to form a closed polygonal chain (or polygonal circuit). The bounded plane region, the bounding circuit, or the two together, may be called a polygon.

A flat or level surface.

A plane figure with at least three straight sides and angles, and typically five or more.

A level of development, existence, or achievement

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

An airplane or hydroplane.

(geometry) A plane figure bounded by edges that are all straight lines.

A supporting surface of an airplane; an airfoil or wing.

(geometry) The boundary of such a figure.

A carpenter's tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing and leveling wood.

A figure comprising vertices and (not necessarily straight) edges, alternatingly.

A trowel-shaped tool for smoothing the surface of clay, sand, or plaster in a mold.

(geometry) Such a figure and its interior, taken as a whole.

The plane tree.

A plane figure having many angles, and consequently many sides; esp., one whose perimeter consists of more than four sides; any figure having many angles.

(Mathematics) Of or being a figure lying in a plane

A closed plane figure bounded by straight sides

Flat; level.

To smooth or finish with a plane

To remove with a plane

To work with a plane.

To rise partly out of the water, as a hydroplane does at high speeds.

To soar or glide.

To travel by airplane.

Of a surface: flat or level.

A level or flat surface.

(geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane). Category:en:Surfaces

(anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.

A level of existence or development.

A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc. (Compare airfoil, hydrofoil.)}}

Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.

A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.

An airplane; an aeroplane.

(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight.

(entomology) The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.

(countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.

(Northern UK) A sycamore.

To smooth (wood) with a plane.

To move in a way that lifts the bow out of the water.

To glide or soar.

Any tree of the genus Platanus.

A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.

An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.

A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.

A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.

Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.

To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.

To efface or remove.

Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.

Of a boat, to lift more or less out of the water while in motion, after the manner of a hydroplane; to hydroplane.

An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets;

(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape;

A level of existence or development;

A power tool for smoothing or shaping wood

A carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood;

Cut or remove with or as if with a plane;

Travel on the surface of water

Make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane;

Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another;