, Rectilinear, or Right-lined, is the quality or nature of figures that are bounded by right lines, or formed by right lines.
RECURRING Series, is a series constituted in such a manner, that having taken at pleasure any number of its terms, each following term shall be related to the same number of preceding terms according to a constant law of relation. See Recurring Series.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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