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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: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
Bevelled
adjective · 78% connection
Replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaced by sloping planes, as a cube…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
Bevelment
noun · 78% connection
The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
Character
noun · 78% connection
Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
Conoid
noun · 78% connection
A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
Converse
noun · 78% connection
A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the su…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
Coordinate
noun · 78% connection
Lines, or other elements of reference, by means of which the position of any point, as of a curve, is defined with respect to certain…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
Couple
adjective · 78% connection
Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around paralle…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
Decagon
noun · 78% connection
A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
Diallel
adjective · 78% connection
Meeting and intersecting, as lines; not parallel; -- opposed to parallel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
Diameter
noun · 78% connection
Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
Diamond
noun · 78% connection
A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
Dome
noun · 78% connection
A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
Frustum
noun · 78% connection
The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
Goniometer
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for measuring angles, especially the angles of crystals, or the inclination of planes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
Grating
noun · 78% connection
A system of close equidistant and parallel lines lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spect…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
Gyron
noun · 78% connection
A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite aide at the edge of the escutcheon. When…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
Hemihedral
adjective · 78% connection
Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as wh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: straight, lines, planes, angles, some.
