1640s, from French linéaire, from Latin linearis "belonging to a line," from linea "string, line" (see line (n.)). Essentially the same word as lineal; "in Latin linearis the original suffix -alis was dissimilated to -aris, but in Late Latin this rule was no longer productive and the formation or re-formation in -alis remained unchanged." [Barnhart]. Linear A and Linear B (1902-3) were names given to two related forms of linear Minoan writing discovered 1894-1901 in Crete by Sir Arthur Evans.
雙語例句
1. In his art he broke the laws of scientific linear perspective.
他在自己的繪畫藝術中打破了科學的直線透視法規律。
來自《權威詞典》
2. He's making linear measurements.
他正在進行長度測量.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. Her novel subverts the conventions of linear narrative. It has no neat chronology and no tidy denouement.
她的小說顛覆了線性敘事的傳統，沒有清晰的時間線索，也沒有簡單明了的結局。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Every basis of a linear space contains the same number of vectors.
一線性空間的每一基底包含同樣數目的向量.
來自辭典例句
5. One significant development was the introduction of linear programming.