Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plane quadrilateral having its opposite or alternate sides equal and one pair of these crossing each other.
- noun A system of four plane links pivoted together so that the pivots are vertexes of a contraparallelogram. It is an extension by Sylvester and Kempe of what Sylvester called the plagiograph or skew-pantograph to Hart's contraparallelogram.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An airplane with four superposed main supporting surfaces. Contrasted with
triplane biplane andmonoplane . They are now used only for hobbyist or historical activities.
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Examples
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"I dislike having my machine called a quadruplane, because the number of planes is immaterial; the distinctive feature being the arrangement of the planes in steps; a better name would be step aeroplane, or step plane.
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"I dislike having my machine called a quadruplane, because the number of planes is immaterial; the distinctive feature being the arrangement of the planes in steps; a better name would be step aeroplane, or step plane.
Flying Machines: construction and operation; a practical book which shows, in illustrations, working plans and text, how to build and navigate the modern airship Octave Chanute 1871
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The Boston _Observer_ sent me to Billings almost immediately by quadruplane.
The Fire People Ray Cummings 1922
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If mine works well -- and I'm sure it will -- I may build a quadruplane! "
Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice, or, the Wreck of the Airship Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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