ortholinear
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having all turns occurring at right angles.
adj
Defining progress as one-dimensional, so that change is either a progression, a regression, or a neutral step to the side.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-dʰh₁eti Proto-Indo-European *-dʰeti Proto-Indo-European *h₃érdʰeti? Proto-Indo-European *h₃erdʰ-der. Proto-Hellenic *ortʰwós Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós)lbor. English ortho- Proto-Indo-European *līnomder. Proto-Italic *līnom Latin līnum Proto-Indo-European *-éyos Proto-Italic *-ejos Proto-Italic *-eos Latin -eus Latin līneus Latin līnea Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin -āris Latin līneārisbor. English linear English ortholinear From ortho- + linear.