Rectilinear meaning

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Moving in a straight line.
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Moving in, consisting of, bounded by, or characterized by a straight line or lines.

Following a rectilinear path; rectilinear patterns in wallpaper.

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Forming a straight line.
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Bounded or formed by straight lines.
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Characterized by straight lines.
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Corrected so as not to distort straight lines.
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Relating to, consisting of, or moving in a straight line or lines.
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In a straight line.

The crankshaft and connecting rods of an engine convert the rectilinear motion of the pistons to rotary motion of the flywheel.

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(geometry, art) Formed from straight lines.
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Origin of rectilinear

  • From Late Latin rēctilīneus Latin rēctus right reg- in Indo-European roots Latin līnea line line1
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From post-Classical Latin; either from rectilÄ«neāris or from rectilÄ«neus (whence rectiline) + -ar, in both cases ultimately deriving from rectus (“straight") + lÄ«nea (“line").
    From Wiktionary

Rectilinear Sentence Examples

  • Areas of Plane Rectilinear Figures.

  • to the eye the contrast between the wide winding irregular passages of the sand-pit, calculated for the admission of a horse and cart, and the narrow rectilinear accurately-defined galleries of the catacomb.

  • The species of Linnaeus were supposed to represent a series of steps in a scale of ascending complexity, and it was thought possible thus to arrange the animal kingdom in a single series - the orders within the classes succeeding one another in regular gradation, and the classes succeeding one another in a similar rectilinear progression.

  • Another question to which he devoted much attention was that of obtaining rectilinear motion by linkage.

  • To find the area of any rectilinear figure, various methods are available.

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