| 释义 |
right-lined, a.
[f. right a. 2 + line n.2 9.]
= rectilinear a.
1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. i. No. 17 To make a like⁓iamme equal to any right lined figure, and that on an angle appointed. 1570Billingsley Euclid i. def. ix. 3 If the lines which containe the angle be right lynes, then is it called a rightlyned angle. 1670R. Coke Disc. Trade 74 If a right lined Angle be not space, it is nothing; yet nothing but two right lines comprehend it. 1764Reid Inquiry vi. §9 Wks. I. 148/1 The properties..of visible right-lined triangles are not the same with the properties of plain triangles. 1769Phil. Trans. LIX. 64 To determine whether the force of an explosion was..diminished by being diverted from a right-lined course. 1808J. Webster Nat. Philos. 14 The body will be either accelerated or retarded in a right-lined direction. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 42/1 London rain,..a true right-lined, continuous, equable outpouring of water pellets from above. 1840Lardner Geom. 81 The sum of all the angles of any right-lined figure.
fig.1792Burns Let. to W. Nicol 20 Feb., From the luminous path of thy own right-lined rectitude thou lookest benignly down on an erring wretch. |