straight line

See also: straightline

English

Noun

straight line (plural straight lines)

1. (geometry) A line with no curvature; a line with constant direction. The path of shortest length between two points.

   Synonym: line

Translations

line with no curvature

• Armenian: ուղիղ (hy) (ułił)
• Catalan: recta (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 直線／直线 (zh) (zhíxiàn)

• Czech: přímka (cs) f
• Finnish: suora viiva
• French: droite (fr) f, ligne droite (fr) f
• Galician: liña recta f
• German: Gerade (de) f
• Icelandic: bein lína f, lína (is) f
• Ido: streko (io)
• Irish: líne dhíreach f
• Italian: linea retta (it) f, retta (it) f
• Japanese: 直線 (ja) (ちょくせん, chokusen)
• Latin: euthīa f
• Maori: hihi
• Navajo: kézdongo ídzo
• Piedmontese: reta f
• Portuguese: linha reta f
• Romanian: linie dreaptă (ro) f, dreaptă (ro) f
• Russian: пряма́я (ru) f (prjamája), пряма́я ли́ния (ru) f (prjamája línija)
• Slovak: priamka f
• Sicilian: rittufilu
• Spanish: recta (es)
• Telugu: సరళరేఖ (saraḷarēkha)
• Thai: เส้นตรง (th) (sên-dtrong)
• Turkish: doğru (tr)