Question:
What are the different kinds of lines?
chicgirl
2006-06-17 22:56:25 UTC
What are the different kinds of lines?

curved lines, straight lines.. is that all?
Eleven answers:
ideaquest
2006-06-18 00:37:40 UTC
A line is a series of points that are strung together.



Based on this free form definition, the line theoretically can have infinite combinations.



You can have a curve line, an s-curve line, a multiple curve line, a periodically curved line like a Sine curve, you can have an exponential line, a logarithmic line, a parabolic line, hyperbolic line, elliptical line and circle line, .. etc.



You can even have a messy line, something a child loves to do. Combing with the above, you can have a bold line, a thin line, a variable thickness line, etc.



Throw in colors, you have a yellow line, red line, blue line, green line, purple line and even rainbow-colored line, etc.



Add in a multiple, you can have double line, triple line, broken line, and more.



With all these combinations, there should be infinite number of line types.



Add in the third dimension, you can have a helix line, double helix lines, etc, etc.



Add in the nth dimension ... will let you figure this out.



If between two points, the line has the shortest distance, then it is also a straight line.
sciguy
2006-06-17 23:00:31 UTC
There are no curved lines. By definition, a line is straight.



There are three basic kinds of straight "lines", though. First is your line, which continues forever in two directions but is infinately thin. Second is a line segment, which is infinately thin but only connects two endpoints. Third is a ray, which starts at one point, passes throuhg another point, and cntinues forever.



There are also paralell lines, perpendicular lines, etc. but those are more pairs of lines.
Jane M
2006-06-17 23:07:04 UTC
Some of the kinds of lines that I know about are:



Parallel lines - these lines never cross each other, EVER



Non-parallel lines - these lines will cross each other at some point



Perpendicular lines - these are special non-parallel lines that cross at right angles (90 degrees) to each other - they look like a cross.



Hope this helps.
syedyaseen007
2006-06-17 23:07:14 UTC
There r not much types of lines.Infact there are relations b/w any two lines or more.For instance concurrent lines means all points have common intersection point(x) the letter x has two lines which are concurrent

I guess u know whats perpendicular lines and parallel llnes
Shakeel
2006-06-17 22:59:48 UTC
there are many other



solid, dashed, dotted, or dashed-and-dotted line, curved, straight, diagonal, vertical, horizantical etc



but with some extent you are right that basic there are two types Curved and Straight & all other are properties(styles)
2006-06-17 23:01:50 UTC
Parallel lines, perpendicular lines, intersecting lines, unique lines, parametric lines, geometric lines, zigzag lines, vertical lines, horizontal lines, diagonal lines, and others.
figaro1912
2006-06-17 23:01:48 UTC
Curved, straight, grocery, bank, post office, dashed, red, yellow, green, blue, orange, purple, cocaine, etc.
cmhurley64
2006-06-17 23:01:44 UTC
parallel,transversal , Perpendicular lines
2006-06-17 23:03:38 UTC
line segments - lines with both ends fixed like from (3,4) to(2,8)

rays - lines with one end fixed like (3,4) onwards ,sun rays.

lines - with no end fixed , like the number line and the co-ordinate axes
blah_girl2002
2006-06-17 23:00:45 UTC
curved, straight, diagonal, horizontal, verticle, backwards, forewards, parabolic, and so on.
Arthur Collins
2006-06-17 23:00:16 UTC
No. Perpindicular and diagonal and more.I learned this in elementary school.


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