linear measure

Questions about linear measure

What does linear measure mean?

linear measure means "a unit of measurement of length".

What is another word for linear measure?

Close synonyms include linear unit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is linear measure a common word?

linear measure 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.