ground-plan

plural ground-plans

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

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

      2001, John Blurton, Scenery, →ISBN

   2. A floorplan.

      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.

      1891, Thomas Hardy, The Duchess of Hamptonshire

   3. A framework or pattern.

      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'.

      2006, Paul Ekins, Manfred Max-Neef, Real Life Economics, →ISBN

   4. The hypothetical ancestor of a clade.

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

      1990, Alessandro Minelli, Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Myriapodology, →ISBN