Learn English – What are the terms for these types of lines

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Consider this image:

an image of a black solid line, a red line of dots and a blue line with dashes and dots

Wikipedia calls the red line a "dotted line". However, the Wikipedia page is one of the search results for "dashed line". Which term would I use?

In terms of "dotted line" or "dashed line", what should I call the black line, opposed to the others? Just a "line"?

How about the blue one? Could someone please give me a hint?

Best Answer

These line patterns are commonly used in statistical charts and graphs and are called:

  • solid line
  • dotted line
  • dash-dotted line

The other kind of line featuring only dashes ( - - - - - ) but not shown in your post would be a dashed line.

See source.

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