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nonplanar

adjective
non·​pla·​nar | \ ˌnän-ˈplā-nər How to pronounce nonplanar (audio) , -ˌnär\

Definition of nonplanar

: not planar : not lying or able to be confined within a single plane : having a three-dimensional quality …there is no way of redrawing this circuit so that none of the elements cross. This, therefore, is an example of a nonplanar circuit.— Leonard S. Bobrow

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 Another dozen or so in nonplanar orbits could make the reported trend disappear. — Shannon Stirone, Scientific American, "Dancing Dwarf Galaxies Deepen Dark Matter Mystery," 1 Feb. 2018

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First Known Use of nonplanar

1868, in the meaning defined above

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