Plans are a set of two-dimensional diagrams or drawings used to describe a place or object, or to communicate building or fabrication instructions.
On a two-dimensional diagram, sometimes a vector perpendicular to the plane of the diagram is desired.
Spock pressed an illuminated yellow button on his science console and the starscape on the main viewer was replaced by a two-dimensional diagram of a solar system.
Merriam recognized that two-dimensional diagrams of elevation and aspect described plant community distribution in the southern Rocky Mountains.
Nomogram - a two-dimensional diagram designed to allow the approximate graphical computation of a function: it uses a coordinate system other than Cartesian coordinates.
These two-dimensional diagrams portray worldlines as curves in a plane that correspond to motion along the spatial axis.
In his paper, Milgrom arranged the typical acceleration of various physical processes in a two-dimensional diagram.
This can be illustrated schematically with a two-dimensional diagram of a sodium chloride crystal lattice:
Can the complexities of opera, with its heated passions and secret schemes, really be explained in a two-dimensional diagram?
The problem arises from the attempt to represent space-time on a two-dimensional diagram.