Meaning of ortholinear | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of a keyboard, having keys that are aligned in a perfect grid.
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2. Having all turns occurring at right angles.
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3. Forming a line when plotted on a set of orthogonal axes.
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4. Defining progress as one-dimensional, so that change is either a progression, a regression, or a neutral step to the side.
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5. Moving in one direction, in which each step leads to the next.
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Examples

“In the human fetus as well as in the eye of the infant a delicate ortholinear central canal was similarly in evidence; however, the canal could not be demonstrated in the eye of adult humans.”

“The course of the fistula was ortholinear and caudally directed.”

“When monocytes are placed in a gradient of formyl-methiornyl-leucyl-phenalanine (FMLP), their velocity increased two to threefold, the percent of observation time spent remaining stationary decreased to 5% and locomotion was much more ortholinear.”

“When a crystal formation involves a cell that is similar but angled within its cage, the Bravais lattic projects the angled cell from well-defined points in an outlying ortholinear grid, as in the illustration.”

“Each object—square, rectangle, or ortholinear river—receives a particular pattern of mountain and valley creases, as shown in Figure 12.38.”

“Then it must be borne in mind that Binet's original scale was in terms of years and months, but it yielded no ortholinear values so that score differences could be seen at a glance for the purpose of comparison.”

“As is known in seismology , the magnitude frequency relation of earthquakes is ortholinear on a bilogarithmical scale and is characterized by the angle coefficient y.”

“Nomography is the art or science of constructing graphs that enable a dependent variable to be determined by the use of ortholinear projections given the values of one or more independent variables.”

“Finally, ortholinear copulas with a given diagonal section are copulas that are linear on line segments perpendicular to the main diagonal of the unit square.”

“Besides, the facts not only do not require, they do not warrant, the Hegelian hypothesis of an ortholinear progressive development in the whole history of humanity.”

“This rather ortholinear view of development is widely held, and it is, of course, widely believed to be in harmony with the evolutionary facts.”

“Most researchers, at least in the recent past, have held implicit developmental schemes in mind when using the term "primitive,” even though it has been shown that, for example, biological evolution is neither ortholinear nor unilinear.”

“A precise chronological structure and a rigorous spatial order form the foundation of the text's ortholinear narration.”

“Parayil (1999), therefore, argued that technological transition may best be described as an ortholinear or directional variation, characterised by a selective retention process adapted to a sequential process of variation and selection, while Dosi (1982: 161) concluded that "technological paradigms and trajectories are in some respects metaphors of the interplay between continuity and ruptures" in transitional processes.”

“That process is a wandering one, Montalbetti argues, rather than a strictly ortholinear one.”

“What they found was so bizarre that any attempt to describe what they learned in the ortholinear mode, i.e., traditional writing such as I am using now, did more to distort than to clarify what they saw.”

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