ground-plan

Complex shows may require more than one ground-plan; one for each set-change is common.

It was a castellated mansion as regular as a chessboard on its ground-plan, ornamented with makebelieve bastions and machicolations, behind which were stacks of battlemented chimneys.

What this book has sought to do is to lay out the ground-plan and describe the most salient features of what may come to be a new school of economic thought, which has here been called 'living economics'.

The ground-plan of the Chilognatha thus is a reconstruction of the species from which all chilognathan millipedes have descended— the ancestral chilognathan.