straight line

1. 1.

   a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature

   “the shortest distance between two points is a straight line”

   Antonymscurve

   Broaderline

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Questions about straight line

What does straight line mean?

straight line means "a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature".

What is the opposite of straight line?

The recorded antonyms are curve.

Is straight line a common word?

straight line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.