random line

noun

, Surveying.

1. a trial survey line run from a station toward a predetermined point that cannot be seen from the station.

Example Sentences

“He gave me a shout. We met at the top and decided to pop out-of-bounds. That zone was unfamiliar to me. I picked a random line and took off down the hill.”

From Seattle Times

“This is the group of seniors — the walk-ups, plus the appointments. They kind of have to just wait somewhere while we figure out capacity. And this,” Abraham explained, pausing to glare at the vaccine chasers, “is the random line that people camped out in from like 8 p.m. the previous night.”

From Los Angeles Times

North has used carriage returns as punctuation in other novels, but usually for mechanical reasons, like indicating a body swap; in “84K,” random line breaks combine with almost constant ellipses to lend the novel a distracted air, where no one seems able to carry a thought to its conclusion.

From New York Times

The poems in this, Lucie's second book, were written as "verse-letters": A random line from one offers a quick glimpse of her developed signature, a swift ecstatic style: "Invalid to sorrow — right half, left half, limbic & all/For memory or love — I am subject, subjugate, inthralled."

From Los Angeles Times

Creating arrows requires you to leave a lingering press on the screen to generate a discrete connector instead of a random line.

From The Verge