Lineal

Lineal is a geometric term of location which may refer to:

• pertaining to a lineage
  • Lineal kinship or "Eskimo kinship"
  • Lineal descendant, a blood relative in the direct line of descent
  • Lineal primogeniture or "Absolute primogeniture"
  • Lineal succession (Latter Day Saints), right of inheritance of church offices
  • Lineal championship, in boxing, "the man who beats the man" takes his championship
• pertaining to a line
  • Foot (length) or "lineal foot"
  • Lineal typeface, with no serifs
• Ciudad Lineal, district of Madrid in Spain
• Lineal set of vectors from a vector space

Similar spellings

• lienal, pertaining to the spleen
• linea, any long marking, dark or bright, on a planet or moon's surface