straight path
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstraightandpath
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straight
adjective
adverb
uk/streɪt/us/streɪt/
continuing in one direction without bending ...
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path
noun[C]
uk/pɑːθ/us/pæθ/
a route or track between one place and another, or the direction in which something ...
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(Definition ofstraightandpathfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofstraight path
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The cell did not respond to any right turn movie or to optic flow simulating walking along astraightpath(straight-ahead optic flow).
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Soviet youth has astraightpathto happiness.
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The obtained height-of-window settings uniformly implied a curvature away from thestraightpath, in the direction prescribed by kinematic geometry.
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Secondly, the charged particles do not pursue astraightpathbetween encounters, but rather spiral about the magnetic lines of force.
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There also exist disconnected traditions which are handed on through discontinuity and contradiction, evading thestraightpath.
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Throughout the paper, we simply write 'path', but always mean 'straightpath'.
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The target spot moved along astraightpathfor 250 ms, and a different random sample of line noise was presented in each frame.
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As more than one reading is inevitable, so there must be more than onestraightpathto salvation.
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When light hits structure it bends, the degree of divergence of the light from itsstraightpathbeing the 'retardance'.
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A vicious circle is a cyclicstraightpaththat never crosses two principal ports in a row.
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In this section we answer the entropy stability question by comparison with the entropy-conservative schemes (5.2) which are based upon integration along a simplestraightpathin phase space.
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We do not need internalization to explain the percept of astraightpathwhen in fact a computer animation ofstraightpathwas presented to the observer.
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Moreover, thestraightpathintegration of the entropy-conservative flux (5.2) does not admit a closed form, whereas the new family of entropy-conservative schemes enjoys an explicit, closed-form formulation.
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Probably no tree that has ever fallen in a forest moves along astraightpath, instead it rotates around a center at the base of its elongation.
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Anyhow, we will try to convert you into thestraightpath.
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It does not have to wander from thestraightpathof producing what it believes to be right.
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If their conscience had been so nice in the matter there would have been one quitestraightpathfor them.
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The majority of the people in the country districts are honest, for the simple reason that if they depart from thestraightpathit is always known.
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