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Moving in a straight line.

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Usage examples (6)
  • The eye itself is not conscious of this 'break' in the light-rays, because it is accustomed to 'project' all light impressions rectilinearly out into space (Fig. 12b.).
  • With respect to the Galileian reference-body K, such a ray of light is transmitted rectilinearly with the velocity c.
  • Though rather less than ten inches in length by about three inches in breadth, it exhibits no fewer than seven of those round, beautifully sculptured scars, ranged...
  • The true must be essentially the self-reflecting self-contained recurrent, that which secures itself by including its own other and negating it; that makes a spherical system...
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