Planing
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Planing has several meanings:
- With boats, planing or hydroplaning is a method by which a hull skims over the surface of the water, rather than plowing through it.
- With rubber wheeled vehicles, aquaplaning, planing or hydroplaning is a cause of loss of steering control when a layer of water prevents direct contact between the tires and the road surface.
- In woodworking, planing is the activity of using a wood plane to smooth a flat surface of a piece of wood.
- In woodworking or metalworking, planing is the machining operation performed by a planing machine (planer) to produce a flat surface.
- In music theory, planing is where chords move in parallel motion, thereby eliminating any feeling of harmonic progression.