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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as hemiplane.

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Examples

  • 'Simple - everyone knows that Poles in the right half-plane cause instability!'

    Making Light: Open thread 137 2010

  • Now consider a path consisting of a semicircle of radius R1 in the lower half-plane connected by a line along the x-axis to another semicircle of radius R2 in the upper half-plane.

    iMechanica - Comments Siva P V Nadimpalli 2010

  • It thus defines a holomorphic function on this half-plane, and this can be extended by analytic continuation to a meromorphic function on the whole complex plane.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • It thus defines a holomorphic function on this half-plane, and this can be extended by analytic continuation to a meromorphic function on the whole complex plane.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • It thus defines a holomorphic function on this half-plane, and this can be extended by analytic continuation to a meromorphic function on the whole complex plane.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • The V-22 Osprey, half-plane, half-helicopter, is the poster child for weapons programs that never die.

    Metro News | ajc.com 2009

  • Despite troubled past, US military's half-helicopter, half-plane Osprey faring well in Iraq

    We Blog A Lot 2008

  • ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AP) - After a troubled history, the V-22 Osprey - half-helicopter, half-plane - has been ferrying troops and equipment across Iraq for just over a year without a major incident.

    KOMO - News - Top Stories 2008

  • At, tetration is not periodic, and no exponential asymptotic exist., tetration is quasi-periodic, the quasi-period in the upper complex half-plane is conjugate to that in the lower complex half-plane.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • First, we don’t mean some kind of sissy half-plane, half-car hybrid that some people will try to tell you is a flying car.

    5 Awesome Sci-Fi Inventions | Impact Lab 2009

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