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rectilinearize

rectilinearize verb: to make rectilinear.

Verb

rectilinearize (third-person singular simple present rectilinearizes, present participle rectilinearizing, simple past and past participle rectilinearized)

  1. (transitive) To make rectilinear.

Forms of rectilinearize

third-person singular presentrectilinearizes
present participlerectilinearizing
past participlerectilinearized
pastrectilinearized

Origin of rectilinearize

From rectilinear + -ize.

Questions about rectilinearize

What does rectilinearize mean?
Rectilinearize means to make rectilinear.
What part of speech is rectilinearize?
Rectilinearize is a verb.
What is the past tense of rectilinearize?
The past tense of rectilinearize is rectilinearized.

Words near rectilinearize in the dictionary

  1. rectilinear orbits
  2. rectilinearism
  3. rectilinearity
  4. rectilinearization
  5. rectilinearizations
  6. rectilinearize
  7. rectilinearized
  8. rectilinearizes
  9. rectilinearizing
  10. rectilinearly
  11. rectilinearness

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