supplementary plane (English, noun)
expansion: supplementary plane (plural supplementary planes)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of the 16 Unicode planes located above Plane 0 (the BMP) and requiring the use of surrogate pairs to encode in UTF-16 (Planes 1 through 16, collectively covering the range of code points from U+10000 through U+10FFFF).
Forms:
form: supplementary planes
tags: plural