Adjective: linean
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more linean |
| Superlative | most linean |
Sample Sentences
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SPATIUM, the space between two lines of the linean system. [1825, John Feltham Danneley, An encyclopœdia, or dictionary of music:]
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I think it is paradoxical and misleading to state, without qualifying words, that two linean directions determine one plane-direction; inasmuch as two linean directions really serve to define as many different pairs or multiple pairs of plane-directions as we please, and if we are permitted to distinguish the two linean directions by different names, three plane directions can be separately defined by them without any ambiguity. [1871 November, J.D. Everett, “Plane-Direction”, in Nature, volume 5, page 63:]
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Let B be the homogeneous prime ideal of V, H a hyperplane in the projective space corresponding to the linean form l, and put C= V◦H. [1955, Memoirs of the College of Science, University of Kyoto: Mathematics:]
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Its kinship network too was denser; the historic memory - as expressed in the number of generations remembered and the memory of the names of the linean ancestors - was stronger in this community; the families in it were also larger. [1972, International Technical Cooperation Centre, International Technical Cooperation Centre Review:]
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The student "T" test was used to compare results obtained and the regression analysis (y = a + bx) was used to establish the linean relationship between pg of E2-3H bound by increasing weight of RUE. [1978, Canadian Journal of Comparative Medicine - Volumes 42-43, page 140:]
Adjectives inflected like linean
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology