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

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

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..

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

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..

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.

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

Lineality :: Lineality (n.) The quality of being lineal.

Abscissa :: Abscissa (n.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes..

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..

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

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

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Composed of lines; delineated; as, lineal designs..

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).

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

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

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..

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

Millimetre :: Millimetre (n.) A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter..

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