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Luftlinie — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • beeline noun A straight, direct route taken quickly to reach something.

Senses

Luftlinie is used for these senses in English:

  • as the crow flies (idiomatic) In a straight line distance between two locations, as opposed to the road distance or over land distance.
  • beeline (mining, chiefly, historical) A dynamite fuse made with a small quantity of dynamite powder along its length, so that the spark travels quickly and at a specific known rate.
  • straight line (geometry) A line with no curvature; a line with constant direction. The path of shortest length between two points.

beeline — full definition

  1. noun A straight, direct route taken quickly to reach something.
  2. verb To go straight and quickly toward something.

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