Ground-plan
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of groundplan.; A diagram showing set layout.
"Complex shows may require more than one ground-plan; one for each set-change is common."
- 2 Alternative form of groundplan.; A floorplan.
"It was a castellated mansion as regular as a chessboard on its ground-plan, ornamented with makebelieve bastions and machicolations, behind which were stacks of battlemented chimneys."
- 3 Alternative form of groundplan.; A framework or pattern.
"What this book has sought to do is to lay out the ground-plan and describe the most salient features of what may come to be a new school of economic thought, which has here been called 'living economics'."
- 4 Alternative form of groundplan.; The hypothetical ancestor of a clade.
"The ground-plan of the Chilognatha thus is a reconstruction of the species from which all chilognathan millipedes have descended— the ancestral chilognathan."
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More examples"Complex shows may require more than one ground-plan; one for each set-change is common."
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