Meaning of ground-plan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A diagram showing set layout.
2. A floorplan.
3. A framework or pattern.
4. The hypothetical ancestor of a clade.

Examples

“Complex shows may require more than one ground-plan; one for each set-change is common.”

“It was a castellated mansion as regular as a chessboard on its ground-plan, ornamented with makebelieve bastions and machicolations, behind which were stacks of battlemented chimneys.”

“What this book has sought to do is to lay out the ground-plan and describe the most salient features of what may come to be a new school of economic thought, which has here been called 'living economics'.”

“The ground-plan of the Chilognatha thus is a reconstruction of the species from which all chilognathan millipedes have descended— the ancestral chilognathan.”

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