Garis

Garis is a noun in Indonesian and Malay meaning line, stroke, or boundary. It denotes a mark drawn or imagined as a long, narrow mark that separates two points, or connects them, in both physical and conceptual senses. The term is widely used across science, art, navigation, and everyday language.

In geometry and drawing, garis lurus refers to a straight line; garis lengkung to a curved line; garis miring to a diagonal line; garis putus-putus to a dashed line; garis tepi to an edge or border line. It also appears in compound terms describing characteristics of lines, such as garis tepi, garis tengah (midline), and garis singgung (tangent).

In geography and cartography, garis lintang and garis bujur denote latitude and longitude, the imaginary lines that divide the globe into degrees and help locate places.

In other uses, garis appears in expressions such as garis besar (outline or overview) and garis batas (border line, boundary). The term also appears in palmistry as garis tangan or garis hidup (life line), and in design to describe decorative or functional lines.

Beyond everyday speech, garis is a basic term in Indonesian and Malay for lines and boundaries and features in many technical terms; its usage is widespread across Malay-speaking and Indonesian-speaking contexts. The word is common in education, media, and everyday communication, illustrating how a simple mark can convey positions, divisions, or structures.