ground plan

plural ground plans

1. Alternative form of groundplan.
   1. entertainmentA diagram showing set layout.

      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.

      1992, Daniel Ionazzi, The Stage Management Handbook, →ISBN, page 47

   2. A floorplan.

      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.

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

   3. A framework or pattern.

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

      1988, Treating Problem Children: Issues, Methods and Practice, →ISBN, page 51

   4. The hypothetical ancestor of a clade.

      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.

      2013, Daniel E. Sonenshine, R. Michael Roe, Biology of Ticks - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 74