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straight line

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straight line

Line that does not bend or curve. The graph of a linear relationship is a straight line and is often presented in the form y = mx + c, where m is the slope, or gradient, of the line and c is the y-intercept (the point at which the line cuts the y-axis).



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Mudge, who was at the rudder, kept in a straight line, and by a turn of his hand checked the lurches which the vehicle had a tendency to make.
with the sun, that is when the three bodies are on the same straight line, the earth occupying the center; that she is
The horse kept straight along the road through the drifted snow, and before they had gone another hundred yards the straight line of the dark wattle wall of a barn showed up black before them, its roof heavily covered with snow which poured down from it.
 
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