Definition of "straight-line" []

• Lying in a straight line. (adjective)
• Relating to a device whose linkage produces or copies motion in straight lines. (adjective)
• Accounting Of or being a mode of amortization by equal payments at stated intervals over a given period of time. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "To her, all those fans in the stadium are spinning madly about the earth’s axis, hardly what she would call straight-line motion."
• "I think Toma is starting to understand the straight-line people, the name he sometimes uses to describe outsiders."
• "On a road map of Kansas, the straight-line distance between Wichita and Topeka is 5.75 inches."