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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A line that graphically expresses the real numbers as a series of points distributed about a point arbitrarily designated as zero and in which the magnitude of each number is represented by the distance of the corresponding point from zero.
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- noun mathematics A line that graphically represents the
real numbers as a series ofpoints whose distance from anorigin is proportional to theirvalue
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