mean line

American  

noun

Printing.

1. an imaginary x-high line.

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Example Sentences

There’s one mean line in the entire book, and I just could not take it out, because I liked it so much.

From Salon

Call Of Duty … I mean, Line Of Duty sets out a stall festooned with bathetic aspiration: the opening titles even rounds out with the honorific credit "… and Neil Morrissey", as if he's Morgan Freeman in Batman, rather than the voice of Bob The Builder.

From The Guardian

The angles between the optic axes are bisected by the vibration-directions OA and OC; the one which 588 bisects the acute angle being called the “acute bisectrix” or “first mean line,” and the other the “obtuse bisectrix” or “second mean line.”

From Project Gutenberg

In the latter case—which is the only case that Mr. Allen's measurements have to do with—the law of averages will of course determine that half the whole number of variations in any given structure, in any given generation, will be above the mean line.

From Project Gutenberg

He does not turn the ball much but bowls a mean line from around the wicket.

From The Guardian