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(countable) The amount by which a speed or velocity increases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).
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The ratio of width to height in a flat surface or 2-dimensional abstract construction, such as an image, character, or pixel.
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(engineering) Consisting of two different materials.
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(mathematics) A root-finding method that applies to any continuous functions for which one knows two values with opposite signs, and consists of repeatedly bisecting the interval defined by these values and then selecting the subinterval in which the function changes sign, and therefore must contain a root.
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US spelling of centre of symmetry [(mathematics) A point, within an object or figure, through which any straight line also passes through two points on the edge of the figure at the same distance from the centre but on opposite sides.]
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(semantics) A definition relying directly or indirectly on the term being defined.
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(countable) A circular object, form or argument.
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Composed of encircling lines (such as contours)
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Alternative spelling of collinear [(geometry) Lying on the same straight line.]
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(uncountable) The state of being concave
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(statistics, computer science) a cluster of data points in a set conforming to the must-link and cannot-link constraints specified for each pair of data points
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A convex line or surface.
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Reversal or removal of the act of rounding, as in mathematics or linguistics.
adj
Having a slanted or oblique direction.
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(astronomy) To exhibit as a half disk.
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Having ripples of equal height
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One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.
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Straight, as if in a line.
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(telecommunications) semiduplex
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The decomposition of a 3-manifold as two handlebodies unioned along their boundaries.
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Either the sum or difference of the two oscillations
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Consisting of parts arranged in a single line.
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To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.
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Pronunciation spelling of length. [The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.]
adj
Composed of lines; delineated.
adj
(rare) Synonym of linear
adj
Of or relating to lines.
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Obsolete form of linear. [Having the form of a line; straight or roughly straight; following a direct course.]
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Alternative form of lineate [(zoology) Marked with lines.]
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Of or pertaining to length; especially used to describe a measurement per unit length.
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(business, of an organisation) Using matrix management.
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(computing, programming) Exhibiting metacircularity.
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Alternative form of mixtilinear [(geometry) Containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds (straight, curved, etc.).]
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Drawn in lines without colours.
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(networking) Proceeding in multiple hops
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Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
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A card-based method for promoting creativity jointly created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, first published in 1975.
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Characterized by obliquity.
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Having all turns occurring at right angles.
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On opposite sides of a junction
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Describing any process in which a product is formed at a constant rate and, at the same time, destroyed at a smaller constant rate.
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(hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.
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Exactly upright; extending in a straight line toward the centre of the earth, etc.
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Alternative form of perpend [A brick or stone that has its longest dimension perpendicular to the face of a wall, especially one that extends through the wall's entire thickness.]
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The quality of being quadrilateral.
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The condition of being quartic
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(countable) A rectangular form
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Alternative form of rectilinear [In a straight line.]
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Obsolete form of rectilinear. [In a straight line.]
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Any of the individual points of a scatter plot
adj
(anatomy) Adapted for cutting
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Paper with horizontal and vertical rules, the one collection spaced according to a logarithmic scale and the other evenly.
adj
(in compound terms) Having a particular shape (sharing the appearance of something in space, especially its outline – often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure)
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(mathematics) To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
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(countable) A sigmoid shape
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Physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something).
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(transitive) To make spherical.
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Lying above the range of a filter.
adj
(obsolete) Not in direct line of descent; collateral.
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The process of triangularizing.
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(transitive) To make (a division, a military formation) into a triangular division.
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Division into three segments.
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(geometry) vertex figure
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Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; parallel to the local direction of gravity; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.
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