ground-plan

English

Noun

ground-plan (plural ground-plans)

1. Alternative form of groundplan
   1. (theater) A diagram showing set layout.
      • 2001, John Blurton, Scenery, →ISBN:

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

   2. Floorplan.
      • 1891, Thomas Hardy, The Duchess of Hamptonshire:

        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.

   3. Framework or pattern.
      • 2006, Paul Ekins, Manfred Max-Neef, Real Life Economics, →ISBN:

        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'.

   4. Hypothetical ancestor of a clade.
      • 1990, Alessandro Minelli, Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Myriapodology, →ISBN:

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