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What is the definition of a straight line?
The shortest distance between two points is... a straight line.
What is the difference between a straight line and a line?
A straight line is the shortest distance between two points, a line is the delineation of a connection between two or more points.
How would you define a straight line?
Without wishing to overcomplicate matters, one could simply define a straight line as: "the shortest distance between two given points".
What is the shortest line between any two points?
In plane geometry it is a straight line. If you want to know the shortest line between two points on a globe, it will be the intervening section or arc of the great circle route that connects the points. The great circle will be a circle that cuts the globe into exactly equal parts, like the equator.
What figure do you get if you join two points in cartesian plane?
You get a curve. If you join them along the shortest [Euclidean] distance between them, you get a straight line.
What is the definition of a straight line?
The shortest distance between two points is... a straight line.
What is the difference between a straight line and a line?
A straight line is the shortest distance between two points, a line is the delineation of a connection between two or more points.
What is the shortest distance between teo points?
a straight line
What is the shortest distance between four points?
The shortest distance between four points is a straight line to and from each individual point. If all four points are aligned, the result will be a single straight line through all four points.
A straight line is the shortest distance between?
Two points in a plane.
What is the name for shortest length between two points?
Straight line
How can you determine what is the shortest length?
A Straight Line is always the shortest distance between two points.
What is the name for the shortest line segment between two points in space?
straight line.
How do you get from A-B?
The shortest distance between two points is always a straight line.
What is the shotest distance tow points?
It has been said that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points.
What is the universal truth in the piece of string?
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
What is the source of the expression the shortest distance between two points is a straight line?
It has been attributed to Archimedes.
