Usually means: Shape or layout of wings.
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  1. planform: Merriam-Webster
  2. planform: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. planform: Collins English Dictionary
  4. planform: Wiktionary
  5. planform: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. planform: Dictionary.com
  7. Planform (aeronautics), Planform: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. planform: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (planform)

▸ noun:  (aviation) The shape and layout of a fixed-wing aircraft's fuselage and wing.

Similar:
fuselage, plane, airframe, airfoil, mainplane, aerofoil, deck, airway, wing, dihedral, more...

Opposite:
profile, cross section, side view

Types:
triangular, rectangular, trapezoidal, delta, swept-wing, gull-wing, canard, tandem-wing, more...

Phrases:
planform area, more...

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Similar:
fuselage, plane, airframe, airfoil, mainplane, aerofoil, deck, airway, wing, dihedral, more...

Opposite:
profile, cross section, side view

Types:
triangular, rectangular, trapezoidal, delta, swept-wing, gull-wing, canard, tandem-wing, more...

Phrases:
planform area, more...



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