Rectilinear: alternatives and connections

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,…

Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figu…

Any small space, bounded by some part different in color or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects,…

A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e.…

A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pu…

Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inc…

To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded ac…

A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it…

A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a plane angle…

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…

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,…

The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.

Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight lin…

Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure.

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…

A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus;…

The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of te…

A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of str…