Line

Look up Line, line, or líne in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Line most often refers to:

• In geometry, art, or similar:
  • Line (geometry), an object that has zero thickness and no curvature (i.e. is straight) and stretches to infinity
  • Line segment, a finite piece of an infinite line
  • Line (graphics), a path drawn between two points
• A line of text:
  • See line length in typography
  • Line (text file), a row of characters as a unit of organization within text files
  • Line (poetry), the fundamental unit of poetic composition
• Telephone line, a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system
• Queue area, known in American English as a place to stand "in line"

Line, lines, The Line, or LINE may also refer to:

Computing and telecommunications

• Transmission line (disambiguation), a structure for transmitting some kind of resource or signal
  • Line level, the standard strength of an audio signal
• Line (video), a measure of video display resolution or image resolution

Arts, entertainment, and media

• § Films
• § Podcasts
• § Television shows and episodes

Business

• Above the line (ATL) and below the line (BTL) describe advertisements that are targeted to either the general public or specific audiences, respectively
• In the context of staff and line functions, business activities that directly advance the main goal, as opposed to staff functions' support role
• A set of related products from the same company:
  • Line of business (LOB)
  • Product lining
• A line item on a form, such as the bottom line that often represents net income
• A cutoff between categories, such as:
  • Poverty threshold, AKA poverty line or breadline, the amount of income estimated as the minimum needed to afford necessities
• Line management, the direct supervisors of front-line workers

Military

• Line officer or officer of the line, an officer with authority to command units

Science

• Fault line, a geological term
• Inbred line, either of:
  • Inbred strain or linear organisms, model organisms that are nearly genetically identical and are used in laboratories
  • Products of line breeding, a technique in animal and plant agriculture and horticulture
• Lineage (evolution), a sequence of species that form a line of descent
• Long interspersed nuclear element, or LINE, a DNA sequence of two non-overlapping reading frames, accounting for 21% of human DNA
• Maxwell (unit), the unit of magnetic flux, formerly called line

Sports

Transport

• Airline, a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight
• Log-line, in nautical usage, a piece of rope which has been assigned a function
• Shipping line, a company engaged in sea transport
• Railway line, a railway route or service
• Waterline, the line where the hull of a ship meets the surface of the water

Names and titles

• Line Corporation, a Tokyo-based technology company
  • Line (software), a social messaging application operated by Line Corporation
• The Line, a website and social media campaign promoting respectful relationships, run by Our Watch in Australia
• LINE (combat system), a martial arts system

Other uses

• Line (unit), an obsolete unit of length equal to one-twelfth or (later) one-tenth of an inch
• Line (heraldry), used to divide and vary fields and charges in heraldry
• Line dance, a choreographed dance of a group of people

See also

• Writing lines, a form of school punishment
• A-line (disambiguation)
• Line cook, a chef who works a station in a professional restaurant
• Bottom line (disambiguation)
• Linear (disambiguation)
• Liner (disambiguation)
• Lining (disambiguation)
• Lyne (disambiguation)
• Iine (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Line

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