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Definition of Rectilinearly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rectilinearly
Literary usage of Rectilinearly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1844)
"In this property also circularly-polarized light agrees with common or unpolarized
light, but differs from rectilinearly polarized light. 3. ..."
2. Lectures on Polarized Light: Together with a Lecture on the Microscope by Jonathan Pereira (1854)
"Now every circularly-polarized ray is equal to two rectilinearly polarized waves,
differing in their progress an odd number of \ undulations. ..."
3. The Nature of Light: With a General Account of Physical Optics by Eugene Lommel (1876)
"... and again gives rise to a rectilinearly polarised ray which now vibrates in
PQ, and consequently disappears when the plane of vibration of the second ..."
4. Lectures on Polarized Light: Together with a Lecture on the Microscope by Jonathan Pereira (1854)
"Now every circularly-polarized ray is equal to two rectilinearly polarized waves,
differing in their progress an odd number of | undulations. ..."
5. Space and Time in Contemporary Physics: An Introduction to the Theory of by Moritz Schlick (1920)
"It is a matter of everyday experience that all mechanical events take place in
a system which is moving uniformly and rectilinearly (eg in a moving ship or ..."
6. Lectures on Polarized Light: Together with a Lecture on the Microscope by Jonathan Pereira (1854)
"rectilinearly polarized light, however, agrees with the circular light in producing
complementary tints ; but they are not the same in the two cases ; those ..."
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