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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlɪn.i.ə/
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• General-American: /ˈlɪn.i.əɹ/
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• India: /liː.nɪ.jə(ɾ)/
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• India: /liːn.jə(ɾ)/
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• rhymes with -ɪniə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: L IH1 N IY0 ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Latin līneāris, from līnea (“line”) + -āris (adjectival suffix), equivalent to line + -ar. Doublet of lineal.

86 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: lineêr — having the form of a line
• Belarusian: ліне́йны (linjéjny) — having the form of a line
• Bulgarian: линеен (lineen) — having the form of a line
• Catalan: lineal — having the form of a line
• Catalan: linear — having the form of a line
• Chinese Mandarin: 线性 (xianxing) — having the form of a line
• Danish: lige — having the form of a line
• Danish: lineær — having the form of a line
• Dutch: lineair — having the form of a line
• Faroese: linjurættur — having the form of a line
• Finnish: suoraviivainen — having the form of a line
• French: linéaire — having the form of a line
• Galician: lineal — having the form of a line
• Galician: linear — having the form of a line
• German: linear — having the form of a line
• Greek: γραμμικός (grammikós) — having the form of a line
• Ancient Greek: γραμμικός (grammikós) — having the form of a line
• Hungarian: vonalas — having the form of a line
• Icelandic: línulegur — having the form of a line
• Indonesian: linear — having the form of a line
• Indonesian: linier — having the form of a line
• Indonesian: segaris — having the form of a line
• Italian: lineare — having the form of a line
• Latin: rēctus — having the form of a line
• Latin: prōrsus — having the form of a line
• Latin: dīrēctus — having the form of a line
• Latin: līneāris — having the form of a line
• Latin: līneālis — having the form of a line
• Norwegian: lineær — having the form of a line
• Polish: linearny — having the form of a line
• Polish: liniowy — having the form of a line
• Portuguese: linear — having the form of a line
• Russian: лине́йный (linéjnyj) — having the form of a line
• Spanish: lineal — having the form of a line
• Swedish: linjär — having the form of a line
• Turkish: doğrusal — having the form of a line
• Turkish: lineer — having the form of a line
• Ukrainian: ліні́йний (liníjnyj) — having the form of a line
• Bulgarian: линеен (lineen) — of or relating to lines
• Finnish: suoraviivainen — of or relating to lines
• Latin: līneāris — of or relating to lines
• Latin: līneālis — of or relating to lines
• Latin: līneārius — of or relating to lines
• Malay: garis — of or relating to lines
• Malay: garisan — of or relating to lines
• Malay: kegarisan — of or relating to lines
• Malay: kegarisanan — of or relating to lines
• Malay: linear — of or relating to lines
• Polish: linearny — of or relating to lines
• Polish: liniowy — of or relating to lines
• Spanish: lineal — of or relating to lines
• Bulgarian: постъпателен (postǎpatelen) — made in a step-by-step manner
• Finnish: suoraviivainen — made in a step-by-step manner
• Finnish: johdonmukainen — made in a step-by-step manner
• Latin: gradārius — made in a step-by-step manner
• Russian: после́довательный (poslédovatelʹnyj) — made in a step-by-step manner
• Finnish: tasasoukka — botany, of leaves: long and narrow
• German: linealisch — botany, of leaves: long and narrow
• German: lineal — botany, of leaves: long and narrow
• Spanish: lineal — botany, of leaves: long and narrow
• Afrikaans: lineêr — in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial
• Bulgarian: линеен (lineen) — in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial
• Czech: lineární — in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial
• Danish: lineær — in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial
• Finnish: lineaarinen — in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial
• French: linéaire — in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial
• German: linear — in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial
• Greek: γραμμικός (grammikós) — in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial
• Italian: lineare — in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial
• Norwegian: lineær — in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial
• Polish: linearny — in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial
• Polish: liniowy — in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial
• Portuguese: linear — in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial
• Russian: лине́йный (linéjnyj) — in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial
• Spanish: lineal — in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial
• Swedish: linjär — in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial
• Swedish: lineär — in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial
• Afrikaans: lineêr — physics: involving only one dimension
• Bulgarian: линеен (lineen) — physics: involving only one dimension
• Finnish: lineaarinen — physics: involving only one dimension
• German: linear — physics: involving only one dimension
• Polish: linearny — physics: involving only one dimension
• Polish: liniowy — physics: involving only one dimension
• Russian: линейный (linejnyj) — physics: involving only one dimension
• Russian: одномерный (odnomernyj) — physics: involving only one dimension
• Spanish: unidimensional — physics: involving only one dimension