Timeline for Is there a (current or historical) word for the extremes on the left-right axis?
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| Nov 21, 2023 at 22:28 | answer | added | Tuffy | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 21, 2023 at 15:21 | comment | added | A rural reader | Leftmost and rightmost? | |
| Nov 21, 2023 at 9:29 | history | edited | Joachim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 21, 2023 at 3:27 | answer | added | chux | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 20, 2023 at 22:42 | comment | added | Lambie | Until you hit the side of the cube, left or right. But all these directions are meaningless except in terms of your own perspective because a cube is equal on all sides...up, down, left and right only have meaning relative to some other point inside or outside of it....And I'm no maths person. And what axis do you mean anyway? | |
| Nov 20, 2023 at 22:34 | comment | added | EulerSpoiler | Linguistic similarity does not imply similarity in terms of physics. The items explicitly mentioned by the OP are invariant in regard to physics, and so reflect faithfully in a mirror, but a mirror INTERCHANGES left and right. This 'fantasy' status of left and right may be the root reason why it is difficult to satisfy the OP's request. | |
| Nov 20, 2023 at 22:02 | answer | added | GEdgar | timeline score: -4 | |
| Nov 20, 2023 at 21:46 | answer | added | Narasimham | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 20, 2023 at 20:39 | comment | added | nasch | @EmilKarlsson "Port" and "starboard" don't mean the limit of travel to the left or the right, they just mean left and right. | |
| Nov 20, 2023 at 19:41 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Isn't the most telling part of the exposition '… back(ward) until you hit the (back/rear)…'? What does 'rear' really add to that? How could it differ from '… left/right(ward) until you hit the (left/right)…'? Are you trying to have this two ways? | |
| Nov 20, 2023 at 16:11 | answer | added | Barmar | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 20, 2023 at 15:53 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'Top', 'bottom', 'front' (= van) etc are all deictic. All lines are infinite, all notional end-points arbitrarily defined (top of a given mountain, not furthest possible distance from 'base' in a vertical line ; 'front' of a bus, say. With the container constraint, the bus for instance, the left edge/side etc are the arbitrarily defined limits. | |
| Nov 20, 2023 at 14:27 | comment | added | common_goldfish | You could refer to "the right side" or"the left side" of an object. | |
| Nov 20, 2023 at 13:17 | comment | added | user57832 | Mathematicians have identified infimums and supremums as, respectively, left and right axis limits, "the greatest (least) element of set P that is lower (higher) or equal to the lowest element of set S." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infimum_and_supremum | |
| Nov 20, 2023 at 13:13 | comment | added | barbecue | Generally, people don't continuously move left or right, they tend to turn left or right, then move forward. And you can turn left or right as many times as you want. | |
| Nov 20, 2023 at 12:28 | comment | added | Emil Karlsson | The only words I can come up with are port and starboard, but those words only make sense if you're on a boat. | |
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| Nov 19, 2023 at 22:13 | answer | added | MrSparkly | timeline score: 14 | |
| Nov 19, 2023 at 21:49 | comment | added | Weather Vane | ...until you hit (or reach) the limit works for all of them. Note that your forward / backward examples don't work well, because 'back' and 'front' usually refer to your own extremities. | |
| Nov 19, 2023 at 21:27 | history | asked | crb | CC BY-SA 4.0 |