It must, however, be remembered that rays have no physical existence, for it is the waves that are propagated, and not the ray, which simply indicates the direction that the light takes, this truth being known as the rectilineal propagation of light. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
If the outline be rectilineal, simplicity of law produces symmetry, and variety of result can be attained only at the expense of simplicity in the law. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
The first law of motion is, that everything preserves a state of rest, or of uniform rectilineal (that is, straight, motion), unless affected by some moving force. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering] Reference
Another problem solved by the Pythagoreans was that of drawing a rectilineal figure which shall be equal in area to one given rectilineal figure and similar to another. 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
It is the simplest of all curves, and the standard or measure of curvature, -- vastly more simple in its laws than any rectilineal figure, and therefore more beautiful than any simple figure of that kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
In the circumference of the circle, then, no two of the points equidistant from the centre can touch each other; and the circumference must be made up of infinite all rectilineal sides joining these points. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859] Reference
I. 44, 45, where it is shown how to apply to a given straight line as base a parallelogram with one angle equal to a given angle and equal in area to any given rectilineal figure; this construction is the geometrical equivalent of arithmetical. 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
Under the centripetal force, the base of the projectile tended toward the moon; but the centrifugal still prevailed; and it was probable that its rectilineal course would be changed to a curve of some sort, the nature of which they could not at present determine. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Moon] Reference
J. P "; Todwarden J.nes's rectilineal wizardry," A Basket of. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914] Reference
The ancients were aware of the rectilineal propagation of light. From Wordnik.com. [Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873] Reference
It is partial to rectilineal deduction, actual becoming horrifies it. From Wordnik.com. [A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson] Reference
A rectilineal vertical motion is also produced by another construction. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Natural Philosophy: Being Heads of Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh] Reference
The following instructive experiment depends on the rectilineal propagation of light. From Wordnik.com. [Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873] Reference
A current of water and a rectilineal electric current have the symmetry of an arrow, of the type polar vector. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre Curie] Reference
I do not know if this town is really obedient to Heaven, but it is obedient to the laws of rectilineal geometry. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Special Correspondent] Reference
They assured themselves of the rectilineal propagation of light, and that the angle of incidence was equal to the angle of reflection. From Wordnik.com. [Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873] Reference
In "The Processional Instinct," Mr. PAIN informs us that he has discovered that our private life is circular, and our public life is rectilineal. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 26, 1892] Reference
Here we are ever brought back to the undulating ground of living science, instead of having to follow the rectilineal way traced out by the dead letter. From Wordnik.com. [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference
There is much less friction than arises from the sum of all the bearings required to convert the rectilineal force of the common engine to circular motion. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II] Reference
Any other triangle or rectilineal figure can be worked out in the same way, which is not only the simplest method, but it carries its mathematical proof with it. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory and Practice of Perspective] Reference
As to lines, the rectilineal are in themselves the lifeless, the determined 'ab extra', but still in immediate union with the cycloidal, which are expressive of function. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Remains, Volume 1] Reference
Rental cars charlotte awhile for the swarthiness the apprehension of any azalea he has apraxic in a unmalleability or negligence anapsid, we are rectilineal at, bitingly, an nutrient huckster. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Newton began by an assumption that the force which at each instant deflects a planet from its rectilineal course, and makes it describe a curve round the sun, is a force tending directly toward the sun. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
The pavements run in parallel lines, the houses are rectilineal, the gardens are squares or oblongs; if by chance the land sprawls in billocks and hollows, nevertheless is it partitioned in rigid lines. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
The quadrangular Spaces formed by the Meri - dian and Parallels, have their Diagonals equal to each other, as on the Globe itfelf; which is a Property pecu-r liar to this Projection, which is not a rectilineal one. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Gentleman and Lady's Philosophy: In a Continued Survey of the Works of Nature and Art ...] Reference
Yet the law of the parabolic motion would be resolvable into the very same simple laws into which that of the elliptical motion is revolved, namely, the law of the permanence of rectilineal motion, and the law of gravitation. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
Yet the law of the parabolic motion would be resolvable into the very same simple laws into which that of the elliptical motion is resolved, namely, the law of the permanence of rectilineal motion, and the law of gravitation. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
To deduce the laws of the heavenly motions, we require not only to know the law of a rectilineal and that of a gravitative force, but the existence of both these forces in the celestial regions, and even their relative amount. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
In ascribing those motions to a general law which obtains between all particles of matter, and in identifying this with the law by which bodies fall to the ground; a kind of motion which the vortices did not, and as it was rectilineal, could not, explain. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
Taine, more rigid, accumulating documents and methodically arranging them in a method that refuses to be concealed, advances in a rectilineal order, step by step, and with a measured gait, to a solid truth which he did not wish to be either evasive or complex. From Wordnik.com. [Initiation into Literature] Reference
A state of rapid rotation or presenting a more or less rectilineal direction, must at all times form an important matter of inquiry, and bear very materially on the successful prosecution of the occupation of the voyager. From Wordnik.com. [The Hurricane Guide Being An Attempt To Connect The Rotary Gale Or Revolving Storm With Atmospheric Waves.] Reference
9. rectilineal. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
The rectilineal propagation of, and mode of producing it, 9. From Wordnik.com. [Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873] Reference
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