The electric spark, if the foregoing be true, will pass through a vacuum in a right line.
I defy any man to assign a right line equal to a paraboloid, but wn look'd at thro' a microscope they may appear unequall.
Farther, he cannot comprehend the manner wherein geometers describe a right line or circle; the rule and compass, with their use, being things of which it is impossible he should have any notion.
Right line, a straight line; the shortest line that can be drawn between two points.
Defn: A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere.
Right line a picture, as hung in an exhibition of pictures.
At the Bridge, the lower Kingston road, if produced westward in a right line, would have been Queen Street, or Lot Street, had it been deemed expedient to clear a passage in that direction through the forest.
Graves Street has become Simcoe Street, a name, as we have seen, recently extended to the thoroughfare northward, with which it is nearly in a right line, viz.
The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp.
The idea of a polygon in general, abstracting the number of its sides, offers in its sensible representation, nothing determinate to the mind, nothing but the abstract idea of a right line, the general idea of an enclosed space.
We can, when we reflect upon a right line, an angle, a triangle, observe that their imaginary representation is all that we require, and that we do not need to bind these objects together by words.
These methods of bee-hunting depend upon the insect's habit of always flying in a right line to its home.
Undoubtedly,” replied Tom; “of one force which attracts it to the centre around which it moves, and of another which impels it to move off in a right line.
Insects do not always walk in a right line; for I have often observed the little midges (Psychoda, Latr.
The foregoing notion of a point at infinity is a very important one in modern geometry; and we have also to consider the paradoxical statement that in plane geometry, or say as regards the plane, infinity is a right line.
Each of these last equations represents a curve of the first order, or right line; and the original equation represents this pair of lines, viz.
A curve of the first order is a right line; and conversely every right line is a curve of the first order.
But it is evident that the estimation of a right line cannot be viewed as direct except so far as the linear unit can be applied to it.
Indeed, if a body be put in motion, and meets with no resistance, it will move on in a right line forever--and why?
But that great philosopher, by reflecting on the nature of matter, very clearly saw, that if a body were put in motion, and met with no resistance, it would continue to move on in a right line forever.
Has any man ever seen a body put in motion, and continue to move on in a right line forever?
They had all under the left wing a mark like two diameters dividing a circle into equal parts, or, if you had rather have it so, like a perpendicular line falling on a right line.
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