compass plane

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   a plane with a flexible face that can plane concave or convex surfaces

   Synonymscircular plane

   Broaderplane

Questions about compass plane

What does compass plane mean?

compass plane means "a plane with a flexible face that can plane concave or convex surfaces".

What is another word for compass plane?

Close synonyms include circular plane. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is compass plane a common word?

compass plane is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.