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rectilinear collapse: characterized by a straight line or lines; "rectilinear patterns in wallpaper"; "the rectilinear propagation of light"

unbent collapse: not bent; "looking for an unbent nail"; "trees with straight unbent trunks make the best lumber"

vertical collapse: something that is oriented vertically; of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group); "vertical social mobility"; at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line; "a vertical camera angle"; "the monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab"; "measure the perpendicular height"; relating to or involving all stages of a business from production to distribution

linear collapse: of or in or along or relating to a line; involving a single dimension; "a linear measurement"; designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree; measured lengthwise; "cost of lumber per running foot"; of a leaf shape; long and narrow

perpendicular collapse: an extremely steep face; a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting; a straight line at right angles to another line; extremely steep; "the great perpendicular face of the cliff"; intersecting at or forming right angles; "the axes are perpendicular to each other"

caption collapse: brief description accompanying an illustration; taking exception; especially an quibble based on a captious argument; "a mere caption unworthy of a reply"; provide with a caption, as of a photograph or a drawing

beeline collapse: the most direct route; "he made a beeline for the bathroom"

lineal collapse: arranged in a line; in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child; "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity"

secant collapse: ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle; a straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points

as the crow flies collapse: by the shortest and most direct route; "it's 10 miles as the crow flies"

streamlined collapse: made efficient by stripping off nonessentials; "short streamlined meetings"; "a streamlined hiring process"; designed or arranged to offer the least resistant to fluid flow; " a streamlined convertible"

epigraph collapse: an engraved inscription; a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing

superscription collapse: the activity of superscribing; an inscription written above something else

headline collapse: the heading or caption of a newspaper article; publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline; provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline

tangent collapse: ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle; a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point

screamer collapse: gooselike aquatic bird of South America having a harsh trumpeting call; a sensational newspaper headline

horizontal collapse: something that is oriented horizontally; parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line; "a horizontal surface"

airline collapse: a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers; a hose that carries air under pressure

undistorted collapse: without alteration or misrepresentation; "his judgment was undistorted by emotion"

in line collapse: being next in a line of succession; "he was in line for the presidency"; awaiting something; especially something due; "people were in line at the checkout counter"; "she was in line for promotion"; one behind another in a line or queue; "they waited in line for the tickets"

subtitle collapse: secondary or explanatory title; translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen; supply (a movie) with subtitles

orthogonal collapse: having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles; "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes"; "a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system"; statistically unrelated

lead off collapse: teach immoral behavior to; "It was common practice to lead off the young ones, and teach them bad habits"

vector collapse: a variable quantity that can be resolved into components; any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease; "mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever"; "fleas are vectors of the plague"; "aphids are transmitters of plant diseases"; "when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects"; a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction

diagonal collapse: (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry; an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard; "the bishop moves on the diagonals"; a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric; (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent; at an angle; especially connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face; "a diagonal line across the page"

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