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octilinear

octilinear adjective: composed of horizontal, vertical and/or diagonal (45 degrees) line segments only.

Adjective

octilinear (not comparable)

  1. Composed of horizontal, vertical and/or diagonal (45 degrees) line segments only
    • As the problem of finding planar octilinear drawings of minimum number of bends is NP-hard, in this paper we focus on upper and lower bounds.2015, Michael A. Bekos, Michael Kaufmann, Robert Krug, “On the Total Number of Bends for Planar Octilinear Drawings”, in arXiv

Questions about octilinear

What does octilinear mean?
Octilinear means composed of horizontal, vertical and/or diagonal (45 degrees) line segments only.
What part of speech is octilinear?
Octilinear is an adjective.

Words near octilinear in the dictionary

  1. octiamonds
  2. octic
  3. octics
  4. octile
  5. octiles
  6. octilinear
  7. octillion
  8. octillionaire
  9. octillionaires
  10. octillionfold
  11. octillions

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