groundplan

noun4

1. •
   A diagram showing the physical layout of a set, especially the placement of structures on the stage, as opposed to items on the walls or suspended from the ceiling.

   • Another method of recording blocking is to use a groundplan and numbered movements tracking sheet (see Figure 8.3). — 2016
2. •
   A diagram, usually to scale, showing the layout of the ground level of a building or other physical structure; floorplan.

   • Here the destruction is even more complete, and it was very difficult to trace the original groundplan. — 2005
3. •
   A framework or pattern showing the form of something, without all the details.

   • Remarkedly enough, the frame or the groundplan as the innate program appears to be one of the central themes of cypbernetics and of the recently emerging compuational paradigm. — 1992
4. •
   A hypothetical anatomical form from which members of a clade are adaptations.

   • A somewhat detailed, and largely innovative reconstruction of the groundplan of hexapod integumental structure has been worked out by Kukalova-Peck (1991, 1994, 1997, this volume). — 1997