rectilinear patterns in wallpaper. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The two types of straight routes will be called rectilinear routes and stations. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
The lens used for this purpose must be capable of giving a perfectly sharp picture right up to the edges, and must be of the class called rectilinear, i.e., giving straight lines. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888] Reference
Four-sided rectilinear figure having its opposite sides parallel. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
The guest house repeated the clean, rectilinear lines of the main house. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
The rectilinear motion of g is 5 mm. for a variation of one meter in level. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884] Reference
For example let D stand for squaring, E for rectilinear figure, F for circle. From Wordnik.com. [PRIOR ANALYTICS] Reference
I will, however, suppose that the original boundary is everywhere rectilinear. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
It is clear then that, after every cutting, the boundary is still rectilinear. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
Well, it audaciously opened a big SoHo branch in a rectilinear building in 1992. From Wordnik.com. [Abstract Slant] Reference
A rectilinear unit made from clay, concrete, etc. with which walls may be built. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
The only touch of comfort in its rectilinear shape was a cushion laid upon its seat. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Today's innovators are finding new ways to tweak their relentlessly rectilinear sites. From Wordnik.com. [If They Can Build It Here] Reference
By wedging up the ring of a gimbal the motion of the pendulum is changed from universal to rectilinear. From Wordnik.com. [Things To Make] Reference
The sixteenth century created the space of standard (rectilinear) perspective for use in representational arts. From Wordnik.com. [SPACE] Reference
To him, the projected rectilinear-shaped maps of Strabo and Eratosthenes meant that the earth was physically flat. From Wordnik.com. [Matt J. Rossano: How the Myth of the Flat-Earth Dogma Started the Religion-Science War] Reference
The figures obtained by this simple modification are the results of compounded rectilinear and circular movements. From Wordnik.com. [Things To Make] Reference
The northern coastline of the Araya-Paria peninsula, is a rectilinear and rocky littoral zone that is 370 km long. From Wordnik.com. [Araya and Paria xeric scrub] Reference
The use of two little wedges will then convert the apparatus in a moment from semirectilinear to purely rectilinear. From Wordnik.com. [Things To Make] Reference
He must go back to the city, to its rectilinear streets, its close brick walls, its artificial, constrained existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference
The vault of the roof is bold, the tracery of the windows nearly rectilinear, and the mural paintings not without merit. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The condenso-purifier consists of three perforated diaphragms, placed one over the other in rectilinear cast-iron boxes. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference
His elementary motions were continuous circular, alternating circular, continuous rectilinear, and alternating rectilinear. From Wordnik.com. [Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt] Reference
Hachette's ferryboat of 1808, a "machine" for converting continuous rectilinear motion into alternating circular motion. From Wordnik.com. [Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt] Reference
They contended that a "curvilinear slope ... indicates a callous disregard for the fundamental rectilinear frame of reference.". From Wordnik.com. [Abstract Slant] Reference
The straight part of the spatula is cut by one of the methods for the rectilinear cutting of flattened horn (see Chapter IV, section 7). From Wordnik.com. [1. Buttons] Reference
In larger second-floor galleries, curators have made do in spite of the architecture, hanging or projecting work on rectilinear partitions. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Libeskind Opens] Reference
Suppose a rectilinear objective of the kind most usually employed in instantaneous photography, and an object, A B, that we wish to reproduce. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference
For instance, the term quadrilateral, or four-sided rectilinear figure, is correctly divided into square, oblong, rhombus, rhomboid and trapezium. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
The bed of Glen Spean, through its whole extent from east to west, is marked, as I have said, by glacial action, in rectilinear scratches and furrows. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
In making a knife-edge, such as that shown in Fig. 172, put the finishing touches on with a flat file drawn lengthwise to ensure the edge being rectilinear. From Wordnik.com. [Things To Make] Reference
The two distinct types of lenses are the "rapid rectilinear" and the "anastigmatic," which names refer to their optical properties in distributing the light. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
Hippias of Elis invented a certain curve described by combining two uniform movements (one angular and the other rectilinear) taking the same time to complete. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Over this species of collector, which maybe rectilinear or wound around a cylinder, let us pass two brushes fixed to an insulating piece that may be moved by hand. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882] Reference
I take it to be impossible that a floating mass of ice should travel onward in one rectilinear direction, turning neither to the right nor to the left, for such a distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
This road passes through a hill-country, and what it gains in the picturesque it loses in that rectilinear directness most grateful to the traveler with a sensitive stomach. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Our second deduction relates principally to rectilinear figures; it is, that symmetry is in general, and particularly in rectilinear figures, more beautiful than irregularity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
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