Definition of Linear A

1. Noun. An undeciphered writing system used in Crete in the 17th century B.C..

Generic synonyms: Orthography, Writing System

Definition of Linear A

1. Proper noun. a syllabary used to write the as-yet-undeciphered Minoan language, and an apparent predecessor to other scripts, such as Linear B ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Linear A

Lindbergh
Lindberghian
Lindelöf space
Lindelöf spaces
Lindera
Lindera benzoin
Lindesnes
Lindheimera
Lindheimera texana
Lindie
Lindsay
Lindsey
Lindy
Line of Control
Linear A (current term)
Linear B
Linette
Lineweaver-Burk equation
Lineweaver-Burk plot
Lineweaver Burke plot
Ling's method
Ling-pao
Lingala
Lingelsheimia
Lingelsheimia anitrata
Lingism
Lingua Franca Nova
Lingualumina
Linguatula

Literary usage of Linear A

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Scape elongated and climbing, from a coate.d conn, bearing a many-flowered umbel with jointed pedicels; leaves broadly linear. A single Californian species. ..."

2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Leaves all narrow ; lower spatulate-linear, barely 3-toothed the roundish summit; upper entire and more linear, a line or less wide: heads small: ..."

3. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1903)
"... linear. A great number project considerably above the surface. It is interesting to note that a very large hypertrophic scar exists on the front of and ..."

4. The Inscriptions of Kourion by Terence Bruce Mitford (1971)
"The rightward direction of the Linear A and B tablets of Late Helladic Greece is (it would seem) maintained alike by the Cypro-Minoan of late sixteenth and ..."

5. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"Stigmas 3, spreading, linear, a little dilated upwards, bifid, the segments linear, acute, spreading. Capsule oblong, б-channelled, every other channel ..."

6. Handbook of the Irideæ by John Gilbert Baker (1892)
"Leaves linear, a foot long, -J- in. broad, firm in texture, acuminate, greenish, finely ribbed ... Leaves narrow linear, a foot long, firm, strongly ribbed. ..."

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