Usually means: Related to a direct descent.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. lineal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lineal: Merriam-Webster
  3. lineal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lineal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lineal: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lineal: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lineal, lineal: Wordnik
  8. lineal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lineal: Wiktionary
  10. lineal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lineal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lineal: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lineal: Dictionary.com
  14. Lineal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Lineal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lineal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lineal: Rhymezone
  18. Lineal (nt), Lineal, lineal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lineal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. lineal: FreeDictionary.org
  21. lineal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. lineal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. lineal: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. lineal: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. lineal: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lineal: Encyclopedia

(Note: See lineality as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Pertaining to a line.
adjective:  Composed of lines; delineated.
adjective:  In the direction of a line; of a line; of or relating to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear.
adjective:  Having the quality of proceeding, either physically or conceptually, according to a given rationale or other controlling principles of belief, opinion, practice, or phenomenon.
adjective:  (anthropological and sociological): Having an ancestral relationship to mothers, fathers, grandparents, (etc.) and having a descendant relationship to sons, daughters, grandchildren (etc.), exclusive of collateral siblings.
adjective:  (anthropological, sociological, legal): Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).

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