ground plan

noun10

1. •
   A 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
2. •
   A diagram showing set layout.

   • Complex shows may require more than one ground-plan; one for each set-change is common. — 2001
3. •
   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
4. •
   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
5. •
   A framework or pattern.

   • In our ground plan, treatment follows management, care and assessment of the child. — 1988
6. •
   A framework or pattern.
7. •
   Alternative form of groundplan.
8. •
   Alternative form of groundplan.
9. •
   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
10. •
    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