straight-line

The definition of straight-line is something with lines that do not wave or curve, or a way to spread costs across a period of time all at the same rate.

(adjective)

  1. An example of straight-line design is art work made up of lines that do not bend or wave.
  2. An example of straight-line depreciation is assuming the same amount of depreciation each month.

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See straight-line in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

  1. composed of straight lines
  2. Finance designating or of a method of allocating costs to given time periods at a fixed rate: straight-line depreciation
  3. Mech.
    1. designating or of a device, mechanism, etc. whose main parts are positioned or move in a straight line
    2. designating a device designed to transmit or cause motion in a straight line

See straight-line in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective
  1. Lying in a straight line.
  2. Relating to a device whose linkage produces or copies motion in straight lines.
  3. Accounting Of or being a mode of amortization by equal payments at stated intervals over a given period of time.

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