Planing - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: planingBanding plane
A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work...
Capping plane
A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails...
Plane parallel
Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel as a piece of glass...
Plane table
See under Plane a...
Plane tree
Same as 1st Plane...
Planing
a amp vb n fr Plane v t...
Scabbard plane
See Scaleboard plane under Scaleboard...
Hemihedral
Having half of the similar parts of a crystals instead of all consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges or as in the case of a tetrahedron which is hemihedral to an octahedron it being contained under four of the planes of an octahedron...
Hyperbola
A curve formed by a section of a cone when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points called foci is equal to a given distance See Focus If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone another curve will be formed which is also an hyperbola Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola See Illust of Conic section and Focus...
optical activity
the ability of a chemical compound to rotate the plane of plane polarized light This is found only in chemicals whose molecular structure does not have a plane of symmetry and is common in biochemical compounds...
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