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Centrolineal :: Centrolineal (a.) Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.

Parabola :: Parabola (n.) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes..

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal..

Curvilineal :: Curvilineal (a.) Alt. of Curvilinea.

Palm :: Palm (n.) A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height.

Mixtilineal :: Mixtilineal (a.) Alt. of Mixtilinea.

Collaterally :: Collaterally (adv.) In collateral relation; not lineally.

Covariant :: Covariant (n.) A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic..

Linear :: Linear (a.) Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal.

Issue :: Issue (n.) Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants..

Abscissa :: Abscissa (n.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes..

Multilineal :: Multilineal (a.) Having many lines.

Millimetre :: Millimetre (n.) A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter..

Grandfather :: Grandfather (n.) A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

Nephew :: Nephew (n.) A grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant..

Recti- :: Recti- () A combining form signifying straight; as, rectilineal, having straight lines; rectinerved..

Scheme :: Scheme (n.) Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.

Right-lined :: Right-lined (a.) Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle..

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Composed of lines; delineated; as, lineal designs..

Lineally :: Lineally (adv.) In a lineal manner; as, the prince is lineally descended from the Conqueror..

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