nonplanar

adjective

non·pla·nar ˌnän-ˈplā-nər

-ˌnär

: 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

Examples of nonplanar in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Another dozen or so in nonplanar orbits could make the reported trend disappear. —

Shannon Stirone, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2018

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