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Lineal

That which comes in a line, particularly a direct line, as from parent to child or grandparent to grandchild.

LINEAL. That which comes in a line. Lineal consanguinity is that which subsists between persons, one of whom is descended in a direct line from the other. Lineal descent, is that which takes place among lineal kindred.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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We cannot speak of S-R here, as all action contains its own immanent 'stimulus.' The present is not a means to future satisfaction, but good in itself, as the future is also good in itself; neither better nor worse, neither climactic nor anticlimactic, in fact, not lineally connected nor removed.

LINEAL AND NONLINEAL CODIFICATIONS OF REALITY

However, cartography is a model that implies a visual orientation; it invites a gaze that identifies boundaries, however blurred or attractively curved, and produces a bird's-eye view of lineally defined spaces.

Music as a model for postmodernist textual analysis

In the SVMs when input data can not be lineally separated, they should be mapped into high-dimensional feature spaces, where a linear decision surface discriminating two classes can be designed.

Artificial immune system for support vector machine model selection

What might prove true for communities linked lineally by a vigorous maritime trade network might not be true for land-based communities scattered across two, rather than one, geographical dimensions.

War shields of the Torricelli Mountains, west sepik province, Papua New Guinea

Difference in orientation to dealing with interactions individually, collaterally, or lineally

Cultural nuances, assumptions, and the butterfly effect: addressing the unpredictability caused by unconscious values structures in cross-cultural interactions

But it was determined that these deformations increased lineally up to the contact failure.

Analysis of behaviour of contact between the profiled steel sheeting and the concrete

She wanted a grandson to fulfill the most fundamental purpose to her life [...] A little boy who came from her son, who came from her husband, who also came lineally from that golden chain of male to male" (31).

Charted territory: Canadian literature by women, the genealogical plot, and sky lee's disappearing moon cafe

[proves] them to be lineally descended in the maternal line from a female African slave; and he must redeliver the black or mulatto person, with the flat nose and woolly hair ...

The dragon St. George could not slay: Tucker's plan to end slavery

In it, a protagonist named Gregory Gryll, Esq., declares himself Epicuri de grege porcus ("A pig from Epicurus's herd") "and held, though he found it difficult to trace the pedigree, that he was lineally descended from the ancient and illustrious Gryllus, who maintained against Ulysses the superior happiness of the life of other animals to that of the life of man" (14).

Mountain Grills and hoggish minds: W. O. Gant's allusive invective

And the circles construct a completely different individual from the one who is constructed lineally. Therefore, we are deliberately trained to live in other people's shoes ...

Zimbabwe: why donors can't stand free speech (2); In August, Western donors asked the organisers of the Zimbabwe International book fair never again to invite our editor, Baffour Ankomah, to speak at the fair. This is the concluding part of his rapporteur general's report that so angered the donors

The Crown too descends lineally to the issue of the reigning monarch, and the preference of males over females is strictly adhered to.

The constitutional requirements for the royal morganatic marriage

Likewise, black philosemitism, at least in its Christian variety, views Christians of African descent as those who are spiritually and lineally closest to Christ and his Jewish apostles.