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Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant..

Rectilineal :: Rectilineal (a.) Alt. of Rectilinea.

Scheme :: Scheme (n.) Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.

Collaterally :: Collaterally (adv.) In collateral relation; not lineally.

Grandfather :: Grandfather (n.) A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

Nephew :: Nephew (n.) A grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant..

Square :: Square (a.) Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame..

Mixtilineal :: Mixtilineal (a.) Alt. of Mixtilinea.

Issue :: Issue (n.) Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants..

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal..

Multilineal :: Multilineal (a.) Having many lines.

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) In the direction of a line; of or pertaining to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude..

Linear :: Linear (a.) Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal.

Right-lined :: Right-lined (a.) Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle..

Pyramid :: Pyramid (n.) A solid figure contained by a plane rectilineal figure as base and several triangles which have a common vertex and whose bases are sides of the base.

Lineally :: Lineally (adv.) In a lineal manner; as, the prince is lineally descended from the Conqueror..

Interlineal :: Interlineal (a.) Alt. of Interlinea.

Parabola :: Parabola (n.) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes..

Covariant :: Covariant (n.) A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic..

Recti- :: Recti- () A combining form signifying straight; as, rectilineal, having straight lines; rectinerved..

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