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Objective plane

əˈbʤɛktɪv pleɪn
The octagonal object has a wall built up from vertical straight planes, which is trimmed at the top and bottom with a protruding profile. On top, in the round section surrounded by a rim, stray holes have been drilled. The bottom of the object is decorated with grooved rings.
The octagonal object has a wall built up from vertical straight planes, which is trimmed at the top and bottom with a protruding profile. On top, in the round section surrounded by a rim, stray holes have been drilled. The bottom of the object is decorated with grooved rings.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Objective plane
    (Perspective) any plane in the horizontal plane that is represented.
  2. Objective plane
    (Surv) the horizontal plane upon which the object which is to be delineated, or whose place is to be determined, is supposed to stand.
Usage in the news

But sadly, for those hoping the object was a real UFO, officials say it was a rather large military plane instead. jla.com

A screengrab from TIGHAR's high-definition underwater video shows a semicircle near the top and a round object off to right, consistent with the shape and dimension of what could be the upside-down landing gear of Earhart's plane. eaa.org

Among these are cloaking devices that could hide an object from radar and antennas that work exactly like conventional ones but can be molded to match the aerodynamic shape of a plane. nytimes.com

A screengrab from TIGHAR's high-definition underwater video shows a semicircle near the top and a round object off to right, consistent with the shape and dimension of what could be the upside-down landing gear of Earhart 's plane. eaa.org

An orbital plane is a flat, disk-shaped space that connects the center of the object being orbited with the center of orbiting objects. nationalgeographic.com

Affected operations, many of which are one-plane personal-use only, object to the financial and regulatory burden. securitymanagement.com

WASHINGTON – Within a few years, that flying object overhead might not be a bird or a plane, but an unmanned aircraft. usatoday.com

But sadly, for those hoping the object was a real UFO , officials say it was a rather large military plane instead. jla.com

An unexplained flying object is buzzing over Denver that experts cannot identify as a plane, debris or balloon. topnews.com

Usage in scientific papers

In the classi fication of Greig (1971), all three objects are of class B, indicative of enhanced AGB mass loss in the equatorial plane.
The Planetary Nebula population of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

According to our interpretation of the hot object structure (Sect. 4), a disk-like material blocked the O  photons at the orbital plane, which thus could ’see’ only outer parts of the giant’s wind giving rise to only a small redshift in the λ6825 pro file.
Structure of the hot object in the symbiotic prototype Z And during its 2000-03 active phase

The appearance of objects on the extinction-distance plane is complicated by several factors.
High Spatial Resolution Galactic 3D Extinction Mapping with IPHAS

Hydrogen atmosphere white dwarfs largely lie outside the main stellar locus, leaving only a minority inside the region of the colour-colour plane searched by M E AD: these objects will be the very coolest and the very hottest white dwarfs.
High Spatial Resolution Galactic 3D Extinction Mapping with IPHAS

Illustration of the concept of navigation segment for a simple scene (represented from top) with one background (vertical plane) and two foreground objects (vertical rectangles).
Navigation domain partitioning for interactive multiview imaging

Usage in literature

The same objection applies to this set of three planes which I won't let you have neither, so don't bid for 'em. "Doctor Marigold" by Charles Dickens

The momentum of the plane, going at great speed, carries any object dropped from it forward. "Air Service Boys in the Big Battle" by Charles Amory Beach

And to find herself in any way a less object in Hesper's eyes, would be to find herself on the inclined plane of loss, and probable ruin. "Mary Marston" by George MacDonald

The training of the will and its transference from the lower to the higher plane of our nature are among the first objects of Mental Science. "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science" by Thomas Troward

If the upper plane be pushed in, the piston will be forced upward, and with it the object. "Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885" by Various

All the objects in the range of his eyes seemed to move back and stand on the same plane. "Vandover and the Brute" by Frank Norris

The objects which it is important to watch lie in a belt which is roughly on a horizontal plane with the observing eye. "Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1" by Various

As the plane began to descend and objects below came into view, she wondered for the first time where the great bird was coming to earth. "In Apple-Blossom Time" by Clara Louise Burnham

The object was to gain some definite knowledge of form by noting the relation of planes, sections of parts, projections, etc., etc. "Wood-Carving" by George Jack

The sea-plane had dropped two bombs, both of which very nearly attained their object. "The Submarine Hunters" by Percy F. Westerman