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ground plan

noun — 8 senses

ground plan

nounalso spelled ground-plan

› Alternative form of groundplan.

1

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Theater A diagram showing set layout.

  • You will need the ground plan of the set, a scale rule, a fifty-foot tape measure, a shorter tape measure, spike tape, chalk, chalk line, and pencils.1992, Daniel Ionazzi, The Stage Management Handbook, →ISBN, page 47:
2

A floorplan.

  • If in the ground plan, or the elevation, one part keeps another out of sight, the part hid must be drawn, before its perspective can be made.1835 April-September, James Whitelaw, “Perspective Made Easy”, in Iron: The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, volume XXIII:
3

A framework or pattern.

  • In our ground plan, treatment follows management, care and assessment of the child.1988, Treating Problem Children: Issues, Methods and Practice, →ISBN, page 51:
4

The hypothetical ancestor of a clade.

  • The arthropod ground plan, including that for ticks, is of a multisegmented organism; the basic ground plan for an individual segment is shown in Fig. 4.1.2013, Daniel E. Sonenshine, R. Michael Roe, Biology of Ticks - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 74:

ground-plan

noun

› Alternative form of groundplan.

1

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Theater A diagram showing set layout.

  • Complex shows may require more than one ground-plan; one for each set-change is common.2001, John Blurton, Scenery, →ISBN:
2

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.1891, Thomas Hardy, The Duchess of Hamptonshire:
3

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'.2006, Paul Ekins, Manfred Max-Neef, Real Life Economics, →ISBN:
4

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.1990, Alessandro Minelli, Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Myriapodology, →ISBN:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for ground plan and ground-plan.