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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