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multiplane

British  
/ ˈmʌltɪˌpleɪn /

noun

  1. an aircraft that has more than one pair of wings Compare monoplane

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The paper highlights a growing set of powerful tools, including on-chip integrated photonics, nonlinear optics, and multiplane light conversion.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 2026

Disney and his team developed a multiplane camera that created the illusion of depth, so audiences could feel as if they were moving through a scene as the background perspective changed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

“Russian Doll” is a beautiful puzzle piece, a circular, multiplane, existential mystery-comedy set in the villages of Lower Manhattan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

It has the most memorable art in the NES library, from the exaggerated Kabuki stylings of Piston Honda’s I’ve-just-been-punched face to the gorgeous multiplane side-scrolling of the training sequence that plays every few bouts.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2020

A similar arrangement of three planes, one above the other, could be called a triplane and one of several planes a multiplane.

From Story of the Aeroplane by C. B. (Charles Burleigh) Galbreath

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