2001, John Blurton , Scenery , Complex shows may require more than one ground-plan; one for each set-change is common.
Floorplan.
1891, Thomas Hardy , The Duchess of Hamptonshire , 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.
Framework or pattern.
2006, Paul Ekins & ‎Manfred Max-Neef , Real Life Economics , 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'.
Hypothetical ancestor of a clade.
1990 , Alessandro Minelli , Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Myriapodology , The ground-plan of the Chilognatha thus is a reconstruction of the species from which all chilognathan millipedes have descended— the ancestral chilognathan.
