What does the word line mean?
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1. A long narrow mark, strip, or streak, distinguished, in anatomy, from the adjacent tissues by color, texture, or elevation. 2. An obsolete unit of measure, 1/ 12 inch. ( For the anatomical lines, see under linea.).
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Extent in length, considered without regard to breadth or thickness. As a measure, it means the 12th part of an inch.
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[ Latin] Anything thread-like in appearance; a seam, stripe, streak, or other elongated and very narrow mark upon a surface. The name is applied to( A) various narrow ridges upon bone, as the Curved and Oblique l’s of the various bones, Intertrochanteric l’s, etc.; ( B) marks or furrows appearing in the soft parts, especially in disease, as Blue l. ( Lead l.) of the gums in plumbism, the L. of demarcation or reddened l. which indicates the spot at which spontaneous separation is about to take place between healthy and gangrenous tissues, Jadelot’s l’s. etc.
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[ Latin] Hence, in mathematical language, that which has length, but no breadth or thickness; a row of contiguous mathematical points; that which indicates and defines direction or boundary; called, in distinction from No. 1, an Imaginary l. See Mammary l., Nelaton’s l., Focal l., etc. L. of fixation( L. of regard), see Fixation. L. of vision, the visual axis( see Axis).
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Usage examples for line
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" Come; you may fall in line right behind her. – Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl by Fannie Hurst
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I'm afraid I'm not much in that line, but I'll do the best I can. – The Boys of Bellwood School by Frank V. Webster
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This was Anderson's line. – The Campaign of Chancellorsville by Theodore A. Dodge
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