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) (uġiġ) Catalan: recta (ca) f, línia recta f 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: (geometry) Gerade (de) f, (geography) Luftlinie (de) f Greek: Ancient Greek: εὐθεῖα γραμμή f (eutheîa grammḗ), εὐθεῖα f (eutheîa) Icelandic: bein lína f, lína (is) f Ido: streko (io) Ingrian: soora 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, līnea rēcta f Malay: garis lurus (ms) 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) Sicilian: rittufilu Slovak: priamka f Spanish: recta (es) Swahili: mstari mnyoofu Telugu: సరళరేఖ (saraḷarēkha) Thai: เส้นตรง (th) (sên-dtrong) Turkish: doğru (tr)