linear

Meaning of linear

adjective

Having the form of a line; straight or roughly straight; following a direct course.
Of or relating to lines.
Made, or designed to be used, in a step-by-step, sequential manner.
a linear medium
(of leaves) Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides.
Of or relating to a class of polynomial of the form y = ax + b .
A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).
a linear meter

Information about linear

It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of linear

lin-ear

It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
linear is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

linear synonyms

Meaning additive:

Meaning analogue:

analogue, analog

Meaning elongate:

Meaning running:

linear antonyms

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Translation of linear

Spanish: lineal
German: linear
French: linéaire
Italian: lineare

Anagrams of linear

aliner, aniler, Arline, enrail, Erlina, lainer, Lanier, lanier, Larine, larine, nailer, renail

Words that rhyme with linear

near, anear, wellanear, Senear, genear, bilinear, colinear, collinear, curvilinear, infralinear, interlinear, matrilinear, mixtilinear, multilinear, noncollinear, nonlinear, outlinear, patrilinear, quasilinear, rectilinear, semicurvilinear, sublinear, supralinear, trilinear, unilinear, vertilinear, wellnear, Kinnear, unnear, overnear

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