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planimetrically, adv.|pleɪnɪˈmɛtrɪkəlɪ| [f. planimetric a.: see -ically.] By means of, or with regard to, planimetry. (In quot. 1944, ‘in the plane’.)
1944Burlington Mag. Dec. 296/1 The essential difference lies elsewhere: previously border decoration was planimetrically designed, whereas in the new style the border ornament lives in the space above the page. The illusion is created that branches, flowers, insects and birds etc. have been dropped on the page, loosely dispersed, casting their shadow on the coloured foil. 1948Lysholm & Bull in J. W. McLaren Mod. Trends Diagnostic Radiol. xxiv. 322 The composite pneumographs have also been measured planimetrically in relation to the corresponding brain cross-sections. 1959Trans. & Papers Inst. Brit. Geogr. No. 26. 31 A planimetrically correct landform map has been constructed from an existing contour map..for a mountainous area in Colorado. 1969G. C. Dickinson Maps & Air Photographs xi. 166 The profiles are truly ‘lines on the ground’ and must therefore be in their correct position planimetrically, so that detail can be traced directly from the map and will fit the profiles. |