Ortholinear

Quick meaning: Ortholinear is an adjective meaning (computing) Of a keyboard, having keys that are aligned in a perfect grid.

Meaning

(computing) Of a keyboard, having keys that are aligned in a perfect grid.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

The course of the fistula was ortholinear and caudally directed.

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

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.

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.

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