quasistraight

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   almost or approximately straight; treated as a straight line for a limited mathematical purpose

   At sufficiently small scales, the quasistraight path can be treated as an ordinary straight line.

Formed from quasi- ("as if; almost") + straight. The closed spelling quasistraight is dictionary-attested; quasi-straight is the transparent hyphenated variant used in technical prose, including discussions of approximate straight lines in geometry.

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