Usually means: Straight line, no curves, constant.
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We found 55 dictionaries that define the word linear:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. linear: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. linear: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. linear: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. linear: Collins English Dictionary
  5. linear: Vocabulary.com
  6. Linear, linear: Wordnik
  7. linear: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Linear: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. LINEAR, Linear, linear: Wiktionary
  10. linear: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. linear: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. linear: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. linear: Dictionary.com
  14. linear: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. linear: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. LINEAR, Linear (album), Linear (chemistry), Linear (disambiguation), Linear (film), Linear (group), Linear (pop group), Linear: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Linear: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. linear: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. linear: Rhymezone
  20. linear, linear: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. linear: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Linear: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. linear: Free Dictionary
  24. linear: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. linear: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. linear: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. linear: Legal dictionary
  2. linear: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Linear: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Linear: Game Dictionary
  3. linear: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. linear: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  5. Linear (order), linear: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. linear: Medical dictionary
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LINEAR: Acronym Finder
  2. linear: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. linear: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  3. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  4. Bryological (No longer online)
  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  6. Linear: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  7. LINEAR: Zoom Astronomy Glossary
  8. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. linear: Electronics
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See linearity as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having the form of a line; straight or roughly straight; following a direct course.
adjective:  Of or relating to lines.
adjective:  Made, or designed to be used, in a step-by-step, sequential manner.
adjective:  (botany, of leaves) Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides.
adjective:  (mathematics) (of polynomials or polynomial equations)
adjective:  (of a polynomial) Having degree one; that is, being of the form a_1x_1+a_2x_2+⋯+a_nx_n+b, where each x_i is a variable. See also Linear polynomials on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
adjective:  (of a polynomial equation) Involving only linear polynomials. See also Linear equation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
adjective:  (mathematics) (of functions or maps)
adjective:  (of a function between vector spaces) An additive, homogeneous mapping; that is, a function f:V→W is linear if it distributes over vector addition (f( mathbf v+ mathbf w)=f( mathbf v)+f( mathbf w)) and respects scalar multiplication (f(c mathbf v)=cf( mathbf v)). If V and W are vector spaces over a field K, f may also be called a K-linear map. See also linear map on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
adjective:  (of a function over a module) A module homomorphism; that is, a group homomorphism that commutes with scalar multiplication. See also Module homomorphism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
adjective:  (physics) A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).
noun:  (astronomy) A comet, cataloged as “C/1999 S4”, discovered on September 27, 1999, by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program in New Mexico. (See https://web.archive.org/web/20051220100856/http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/comets/linear.html) Sometimes spelled LINEAR.
noun:  (radio slang) Ellipsis of linear amplifier. [An electronic circuit whose output is proportional to its input, but capable of delivering more power into a load.]
noun:  (astronomy) Initialism of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program.

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