To render an object linear. / To treat in a linear manner.

(nautical) a passenger ship

(nautical) a narrow-beam passenger ship designed for high speed trans-oceanic travel

(nautical) Synonym of cruise ship

(initialism) low ionization nuclear emission line region

plural of linear function

(astronomy, geology) Any long marking, dark or bright, on a planet or moon's surface.

(archaeology, linguistics) A syllabary used to write Mycenaean Greek in the second millennium BC, before the invention of the Greek alphabet.

(archaeology, linguistics) A syllabary used to write the as-yet-undeciphered Minoan language, and an apparent predecessor to other scripts, such as Linear B.

(rare) Synonym of linear