Lineal in a sentence as an adjective

I've got 30 lineal feet of bookshelves in my house that are filled with books I bought over the last 30 years.

Pascal sort of lives on in Oracle's PL/SQL, which if not a lineal descendent is definitely at least a cousin.

This is what they say about size: "Greenhouse in the Snow kits are priced by the lineal foot and are available in 6' increments beginning at 30'.

In effect, current systems are the direct, lineal descendants of System/360, announced in 1964, and the System/370 from the 1970s.

This is the lineal descendant of FirefoxOS and shows that the latter failed only due to Mozilla leadership failures.

The lineal descendants of hackers like Cap'n Crunch or the Mentor aren't running botnets; they're building new technologies that are going to keep empowering us.

The primary problem of the phone is that it's a lineal descendant of a technology that was unavoidably based on "stop what you are doing and pay attention to me".

The ancestor is standing well to the east of Mount Kenya, and holding in her hand an entire chain of her lineal descendants, culminating in you standing on the Somali beach.

Just one example: KaiOSTech is the lineal descendent and successor to FirefoxOS, going to 200M+ smart-featurephones globally, even winning a Google investment.

On the other hand, it you already know what a derivative is, you already went through all the lineal algebra stuff, have an idea of numerical methods, etc, I appreciate not wading into those side areas.

If you identify 'progressivism', 'environmentalism', etc., as lineal descendants of ecumenical Protestant Christianity—that is, when you see them as essentially religious movements—it is easy to understand the emergence of vegetarianism and especially veganism: they are the exact analogues of religious dietary laws.

It honestly blows my mind how the direct lineal descendants of the Sexual Revolution are now putting forth a morality that is actually stricter than what conservatives have stuck too, a morality in which even if everyone is adult and consents it can still be condemned if it isn't 2018-approved, with just-barely-not-nonexistent examinations of how that happened and whether it's really a good idea.

Lineal definitions

adjective

in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child; "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity"

See also: direct

adjective

arranged in a line