ground plan

English

Noun

ground plan (plural ground plans)

1. Alternative form of groundplan
   1. (theater) A diagram showing set layout.
      • 1992, Daniel Ionazzi, The Stage Management Handbook, →ISBN, page 47:

        You will need the ground plan of the set, a scale rule, a fifty-foot tape measure, a shorter tape measure, spike tape, chalk, chalk line, and pencils.

   2. Floorplan.
      • 1835 April-September, James Whitelaw, “Perspective Made Easy”, in Iron: The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, volume XXIII:

        If in the ground plan, or the elevation, one part keeps another out of sight, the part hid must be drawn, before its perspective can be made.

   3. Framework or pattern.
      • 1988, Treating Problem Children: Issues, Methods and Practice, →ISBN, page 51:

        In our ground plan, treatment follows management, care and assessment of the child.

   4. Hypothetical ancestor of a clade.
      • 2013, Daniel E. Sonenshine, R. Michael Roe, Biology of Ticks - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 74:

        The arthropod ground plan, including that for ticks, is of a multisegmented organism; the basic ground plan for an individual segment is shown in Fig. 4.1.