A surface preference for the nematic director to lie tangent to the local boundary. Degenerate planar anchoring leaves the in-plane direction unselected; a directionally treated surface can instead select an azimuth. Uniform axial alignment satisfies degenerate planar anchoring on every side point of a cylindrical channel.

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