superplane

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ plane.

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Noun

superplane (plural superplanes)

1. (informal) A very large or technologically sophisticated aeroplane.
   • 1954, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 165:

     The exteriors of these superplanes will be made of glass. The plane will have a glass fuselage, glass wings, glass ailerons and glass stabilizers.

2. (mathematics) hyperplane
   • 1998, Mathematical Reviews, Mathematical Association of America:

     In this paper the authors reconsider the Dirac brackets for fermionic coordinates in the context of quantum deformations of the superplane.