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RAYS |
Straight lines |
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LINEAR |
Of straight lines |
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STRAIGHT-LINED |
Having straight lines. |
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RULED |
Decreed that lines should be straight |
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RECTI- |
A combining form signifying straight; as, rectilineal, having
straight lines; rectinerved. |
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SQUARE |
To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat
surfaces; as, to square mason's work. |
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RECTILINEAR |
Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines;
bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure
or course. |
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ANTIPARALLELS |
Straight lines or planes which make angles in
some respect opposite in character to those made by parallel lines or
planes. |
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INTERCEPT |
A part cut off or intercepted, as a portion of a line
included between two points, or cut off two straight lines or curves. |
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DIAMOND |
A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight
lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a
rhombus; a lozenge. |
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TRANSVERSAL |
A straight line which traverses or intersects any
system of other lines, as a line intersecting the three sides of a
triangle or the sides produced. |
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DIVERGENCY |
A receding from each other in moving from a common
center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the
divergence of straight lines. |
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NEY |
A figure made up of a large number of straight lines or
curves, which are connected at certain points and related to each other
by some specified law. |
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RULER |
A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a
smooth edge, used for guiding a pen or pencil in drawing lines. Cf.
Rule, n., 7 (a). |
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MIXTILINEAR |
Containing, or consisting of, lines of different
kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that
is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve. |
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STRAIGHTEDGE |
A board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge
perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or
a surface even, and for drawing straight lines. |
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LINKAGE |
A system of straight lines or bars, fastened together by
joints, and having certain of their points fixed in a plane. It is used
to describe straight lines and curves in the plane. |
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HOMALOIDAL |
... spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and
postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to
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CISSOID |
...struct two geometrical means between two given
straight lines. ... |
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ASYMPTOTE |
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assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet
it. Asymptotes may be straight lines or curves. A rectilinear asymptote
... |
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ALIGNMENT |
...line or
lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line;
also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate... |