What is the difference between lineal and linear?
lineal | linear | Related terms |
(family) Of a family relationship that includes mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, daughters, and sons, etc. as opposed to collateral.
* John Locke
Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to ).
* Dryden
Composed of lines; delineated.
In the direction of a line; of a line; of or relating to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear.
Having the form of a line; straight.
Of or relating to lines.
Made in a step-by-step, logical manner.
(botany, of leaves) Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides.
(mathematics) Of or relating to a class of polynomial of the form .
(physics) A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).
Linear is a related term of lineal.
As adjectives the difference between lineal and linear
is that lineal is of a family relationship that includes mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, daughters, and sons, etc. as opposed to collateral while linear is having the form of a line; straight.As a proper noun Linear is
a comet, cataloged as “C/1999 S4”, discovered on September 27, 1999, by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program in New Mexico. (See ) Sometimes spelled LINEAR.As an acronym LINEAR is
Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program.lineal
English
Adjective
(head)- the prime and ancient right of lineal succession
- for only you are lineal to the throne
- lineal designs
- lineal magnitude