Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for multiplane. Search instead for multiengine+plane.

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

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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

Between 1929 and 1939, the 75 “Silly Sympnony” shorts earned seven Academy Awards, advanced the use of Technicolor and the multiplane camera and paved the way for Disney’s kingship in animated features.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2016

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 Galbreath, C. B. (Charles Burleigh)