superplane

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

super- +‎ plane

Noun[edit]

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.
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