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Definition of Line of least resistance
1. Noun. The easiest way. "In marrying him she simply took the path of least resistance"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Line Of Least Resistance
Literary usage of Line of least resistance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of City Land Values by Richard Melancthon Hurd (1903)
"Cities originate at point of contact with outer world, and grow in line of least
resistance or greatest attraction or their resultant—Central or axial ..."
2. Structural Engineering by Joseph Husband, William Harby (1911)
"Generally the most heavily stressed sections will be those at which the line of
least resistance approaches most nearly to the outer or inner faces of the ..."
3. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1874)
"When the surrounding mass is uniformly resisting, the line of least resistance
will be a straight line, and will be the shortest distance from the centre of ..."
4. The Farmer of To-morrow by Frederick Irving Anderson (1913)
"CHAPTER II THE line of least resistance THE actual task of gathering up our
belongings and starting "back to the land" is so much more of an undertaking ..."
5. A Military Dictionary: Or, Explaination of the Several Systems of Discipline by William Duane (1810)
"3 Multiply half the remainder by th. line of least resistance, and i. ...
Wring experiments, which shall have a line of least resistance of ю feet, ..."
6. Municipal Socialism: The Conservative Victory in Cleveland by Harry Turner Newcomb (1905)
"... LEAST RESISTANCE THE line of least resistance In the lighting field, however,
there was no obstacle of a legal character and if authority to issue bonds ..."
7. Modern Tunnel Practice: Illustrated by Examples Taken from Actual Recent by David McNeely Stauffer (1906)
"The "burden," or line of least resistance (tc, the shortest line that can be
drawn from the charge in the bore-hole to the outer free face of the rock), ..."
8. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1840)
"Then the line of least resistance for one foot in cubical form will be equal ...
Apply the rule of the cube of the length of the line of least resistance, ..."
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