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A technique developed by Fairchild Instruments that creates transistor sublayers by forcing chemicals under pressure into exposed areas. Planar superseded the mesa process and was a major step toward creating the chip.

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adjective

Having no irregularities, roughness, or indentations: even¹, flat, flush, level, plane¹, smooth, straight. See smooth/rough.

1. of, or pertaining to, a plane.
2. lying in one plane; flat.

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See words rhyming with "planar."

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - plan

Nederlands (Dutch)
tweedimensionaal, betreffende vlakken

Français (French)
adj. - plan

Deutsch (German)
adj. - (Math.) Ebenen-

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - επίπεδος

Italiano (Italian)
planare

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - planar

Русский (Russian)
плоскостной, плоский, планарный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - aplanado, plano

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - plan, i planet, planar

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
平面的, 平坦的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 平面的, 平坦的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 평면의, 2차원의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 平面の, 二次元の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) المسوي, الساحج, القاشط‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מישורי‬

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