straight line
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is a type of: line - a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving pointsubtypes:
- perpendicular - a straight line at right angles to another line
- asymptote - a straight line that is the limiting value of a curve; can be considered as tangent at infinity
- tangent - a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point
- secant - a straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points
- radius - a straight line from the center to the perimeter of a circle (or from the center to the surface of a sphere)
- diameter - a straight line connecting the center of a circle with two points on its perimeter (or the center of a sphere with two points on its surface)
- chord - a straight line connecting two points on a curve
- element - a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone
- bias, diagonal - a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- diagonal - (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent
- vector - a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction
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