Collocations withplane
These are words often used in combination withplane.
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cargo plane
It means that a railway wagon or a cargo plane can be construed as a diplomatic bag if it carries the official seal.
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enemy plane
It is a different story in war where men are prepared to devote themselves to death rather than let the enemy plane get past.
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equatorial plane
The clustered chromosomes aggregated very closely and irregularly, whereas normal ones were arranged on the equatorial plane in a circle at regular intervals.
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fighter plane
At that rate, it takes three men working on a fighter plane 45 hours a week, 2½months.
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flat plane
The motion of rocking is simulated by displaying a sequence of images mimicking a flat plane being rotated step by step.
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float plane
In the past, the flying-boat developed alongside the float plane.
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focal plane
For example, finding the focal plane location of the focused beam is an essential task for providing a good laser cut.
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frontal plane
The learning aims to avoid the failure states in the frontal plane.
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galactic plane
The passage times through an arm are simple multiples of published results on impact and fossil record periodicity and galactic plane half-periods.
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horizontal plane
The heater beam illuminates a 1-mm-diameter target at normal incidence, and the line focus is in the horizontal plane.
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in the coronal plane
The brain stem, including the midbrain and thalamus, was cut on a freezing microtome into 40 -50 mm sections in the coronal plane.
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jet plane
For this he needs a private jet plane.
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lateral plane
They employed a method to control walking by dividing it into motions in the sagittal plane and the lateral plane.
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light plane
These light plane airstrips would serve as feeders to the main airports.
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military plane
It is definitely the military plane for which the tender has been invited.
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nodal plane
Thereby fluorine, unlike the higher halogens, has no extra nodal plane in its orbitals, so size and geometry fit perfectly and no anti-bonding interactions occur.
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orbital plane
However, the inclination of the orbital plane is not known, so the stated value represents a minimum.
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plane crash
Deaths of patients, of loved ones, of illusions of permanence, two personal dances with cancer, a plane crash.
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plane of existence
So if you learn enough, then when you die your spirit would move on to a different plane of existence.
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plane ticket
Passengers on package holidays will therefore benefit in the same way as those who only buy a plane ticket.
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private plane
But if he uses his own private plane and happens to keep or hangar it at the club, then he is charged the higher tax.
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reconnaissance plane
He thought he was to be bound into a reconnaissance plane and that his parents would have to provide £5 for the treat.
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sagittal plane
The ventricular septum is a straight structure orientated in the sagittal plane.
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small plane
The whirlwind effect that lies at the base of the nozzle is eliminated following the positioning of a small plane at the base of the nozzle intake.
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spotter plane
As a second cause a spotter plane, a friend or an enemy would sometimes fly over the tank.
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tangent plane
It is the figure obtained by taking a very thin slice off a folded surface, parallel to the tangent plane.
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torpedo plane
Their work has consisted mainly of reconnaissance, the exercise of torpedo plane attacks and spotting.
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vertical plane
There was moderate degree of residual leakage at two commissures (instead of one) of die tri-leaflet left atrioventricular valve (vertical plane of left ventricle).
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