Definition of Floor plan

1. Noun. Scale drawing of a horizontal section through a building at a given level; contrasts with elevation.

Specialized synonyms: Ground Plan
Generic synonyms: Architectural Plan, Plan

Definition of Floor plan

1. Noun. (architecture) A diagram, usually to scale, showing the layout of a building. ¹

2. Noun. (electronics) A layout representation of where the major functional blocks of an integrated circuit will be physically placed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Floor Plan

floor cover
floor covering
floor exercise
floor exercises
floor function
floor functions
floor hockey
floor it
floor joist
floor lamp
floor leader
floor manager
floor managers
floor of orbit
floor of tympanic cavity
floor plan (current term)
floor plan lending
floor plans
floor plate
floor puzzle
floor puzzles
floor show
floor through
floor tile
floor wax
floorage
floorages
floorball
floorboard
floorboards

Literary usage of Floor plan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"floor plan, shop building. Lathrop School of Mechanical Trades, Kansas City, Mo., showing as a type plans of an old main building of brick erected in 1900 ..."

2. The American Hospital of the Twentieth Century: A Treatise on the by Edward Fletcher Stevens (1921)
"Exterior 212 floor plan 212 Nurses' Station, Plan 339 Occupational Department in Hospitals ... floor plan Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital. ..."

3. American Architect and Building News (1908)
"Tested by our floor plan test this gives the following results, showing that it is not an economical floor plan, for notwithstanding the economy ..."

4. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1905)
"Note also the floor plan of the school with the stove, smoke flue and ventilator at the side and also that the smoke flue is made to cause effectiveness in ..."

5. Structural Engineers' Handbook: Data for the Design and Construction of by Milo Smith Ketchum (1914)
"... to the floor girders and by the floor girders A detail plan of a section of a floor plan of a steel skeleton building is shown in 2. ..."

6. The Craftsmanby Gustav Stickley by Gustav Stickley (1907)
"II: front elevation; side elevation, 614; first floor plan: second floor plan, 615; interior elevation of living-room facing front of house, 616; ..."

7. 20th Century Bookkeeping and Accounting: A Treatise on Modern Bookkeeping by James Williams Baker (1918)
"The drawing at ^ the right is the floor plan of a building 50 x 140 feet and the information at the left, the description of the equipment, space occupied ..."

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