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tool for cutting chips of controllable thickness from a material, thereby smoothing a surface or adjusting the thickness of a workpiece
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Summary

plane ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,773 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: hand tool[2], woodworking tool[3]
  • Commons category: Planes (tools)[4]
  • Has part(s): plane iron[5], sole[6], chip breaker[7]
  • Source of energy: human energy[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Planes[9]
  • Commons gallery: Plane (tool)[10]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13]
  • Used by: joiner[14]
  • MCN code: 8205.30.00[15]
  • Uses: planing[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17]

Why It Matters

plane has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] plane is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . paulsellers.com. Retrieved . paulsellers.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C8100
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: C8100, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  2. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q296245
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q296245, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Uses → planing
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 3760, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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