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Alignment
noun · 78% connection
The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
Axis
noun · 78% connection
A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
Azimuth
noun · 78% connection
An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
Boom
noun · 78% connection
A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating aw…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
Brachystochrone
noun · 78% connection
A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
Buoyancy
noun · 78% connection
The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a fl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
Central
adjective · 78% connection
Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
Centroid
noun · 78% connection
The center of mass, inertia, or gravity of a body or system of bodies.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
Cone
noun · 78% connection
A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
Directrix
noun · 78% connection
A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
Displacement
noun · 78% connection
The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
Eccentricity
noun · 78% connection
The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the sem…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
Epicycle
noun · 78% connection
A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the defer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
Floating
adjective · 78% connection
Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
Generation
noun · 78% connection
The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathemati…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
Gimbals
noun · 78% connection
A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
Level
noun · 78% connection
A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
Monoclinic
adjective · 78% connection
Having one oblique intersection; -- said of that system of crystallization in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, but at right…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: point, intersection, vertical, line, center.
