Definition of Linear measure

1. Noun. A unit of measurement of length.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Linear Measure

linear atrophy
linear combination
linear combinations
linear dependence
linear dichroism
linear energy transfer
linear equation
linear equations
linear fracture
linear function
linear functional
linear functions
linear independence
linear leaf
linear measure (current term)
linear models
linear operator
linear operators
linear pair
linear pairs
linear perspective
linear programming
linear regression
linear skull fracture
linear system
linear transformation
linear transformations
linear unit
linearensate

Literary usage of Linear measure

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Theory of Functions of a Real Variable and the Theory of Fourier's Series by Ernest William Hobson (1907)
"When G is measurable in accordance with Jordan's definition of a linear measure, the function f(x) is integrable in rb (a, b), and If(x) dx is the measure ..."

2. An Introduction to Astronomy by Forest Ray Moulton (1906)
"Relations between Arc and linear measure. — The apparent distances between the stars and the diameters of such objects as the sun will be expressed in ..."

3. New University Arithmetic: Embracing the Science of Numbers, and Their by Charles Davies (1856)
"linear measure. 407. This measure is used to measure distances, lengths, breadths, heights and depths. 12 inches make 3 feet 51 yards or 16^ feet - 40 rods ..."

4. Introduction to the National Arithmetic: On the Inductive System, Combining by Benjamin Greenleaf (1870)
"The yard is the standard unit of linear measure adopted bv the United States ... A metre, the unit of linear measure, as established by the French ..."

5. Complete Arithmetic by Bruce Mervellon Watson, Charles Edward White (1911)
"linear measure 403. The standard unit of linear measure in the metric ... What denomination in the English linear measure is most nearly like the meter ? 2. ..."

6. Life and Work at the Great Pyramid During the Months of January, February by Charles Piazzi Smyth (1867)
"... with leading reference to the Pyramid numbers of 5 and 10,—and finishing with 4, in imitation of the four sides of the base :— PYRAMID linear measure. ..."

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