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curvilinear, a. (n.)|kɜːvɪˈlɪnɪə(r)|
[f. curvi- + L. līnea line, līneār-is linear.]
Consisting of, or contained by, a curved line or lines; having the form of a curved line. (Opposed to rectilinear, and in Gothic Archit. to perpendicular, as applied to window-tracery.)
1710Berkeley Princ. Hum. Knowl. Introd. §10 Neither swift nor slow, curvilinear nor rectilinear. a1746Maclaurin Newton's Philos. Disc. iii. iii. (R.), All the curvilinear motions in the solar system. 1843Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. ii. iii. iii. §6 The minor contours..are..beautifully curvilinear. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Mankind viii. 195 Scrapers with curvilinear edges.
Hence curvilineˈarity; curviˈlinearly adv.
So † curviˈlineary, † curviˈlineous [cf. F. curviligne, † courbeligne] adjs. = curvilinear.
1847Craig, Curvilinearity, the state of being curvilinear. 1824Landor Imag. Conv. (1846) I. 183 Rectilinearly, curvilinearly, and perpendicularly. 1872Cohen Dis. Throat 51 Another fold..stretching curvilinearly backwards.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Curvilineal or Curvilineary (in Geom.), crooked-lined. 1721in Bailey. 1692Ray Dissol. World 115 Curvilineous concretions of Salts. |