linear equation

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   a polynomial equation of the first degree

   Broaderequation

Questions about linear equation

What does linear equation mean?

linear equation means "a polynomial equation of the first degree".

Is linear equation a common word?

linear equation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.