| 单词 | right line |
| 释义 | > as lemmasright line right line n. a straight line; (Geometry) the shortest line on a surface which joins two given points on that surface. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > straightness > [noun] > rectilinear quality > a straight line straight line1398 right linec1400 rectitude1578 c1400 Omnis Plantacio (Egerton) l. 633 in Wks. Lollard Preacher (2001) 25 Also Plato and his sect seien þat two poyntis or indiuisible þingis stonden togidir in a riȝt lyne wiþoute ony mene. 1509 J. Fisher Saynges Dauyd in Eng. Wks. (1876) I. 62 As long as the myddes of a lyne is egall with bothe endes,..it is called a ryght lyne. 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 2 One right lyne cannot be righter then an other. 1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (new ed.) I. 162 Two parabolas, placed with their axes in the same right line, are asymptotes to one another. 1898 T. F. Tout Empire & Papacy (1901) xvii. 425 The right lines and measured regularity of an American city. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 649 A conjunction of two or more public thoroughfares, the point of bisection of a right line drawn between their residences. 2002 L. Schneps tr. Y. Hellegouarch Invitation Math. Fermat-Wiles iv. 243 A right line drawn in the plane of a curve. < as lemmas |
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