Line

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Line, lines or LINE may refer to:

Science and technology

Computing & communications

• Line (software), a social messaging application operated by Naver.
• Line Corporation, a Japanese subsidiary of the South Korean company Naver.
• Line (electrical engineering), any circuit or loop of an electrical system.
  • Telephone line, a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system.
  • Transmission line, a specialized structure designed to carry alternating current of radio frequency.
  • Line level, a common standard for audio signals.
• Line (video), a measure of video display resolution or image resolution.
• Line (text file), a row of characters as a unit of organization within text files.
• Lines, a 2015 video game by Gamious

Mathematics & geometry

• Line (geometry), a concept which includes, but is not limited to, an infinitely-extended one-dimensional figure with no curvature.
• Line (unit), an obsolete unit of length equal to one-twelfth or one-tenth of an inch.

Physics

• Former name of the unit of magnetic flux, the Maxwell.

Biology

• Lineage (evolution), a sequence of species that form a line of descent.
• 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.
• Long interspersed nuclear element, a DNA sequence of two non-overlapping reading frames, accounting for 21% of human DNA.

Health & medicine

• Catheter, a thin tube extruded from medical grade materials serving a broad range of functions.
  • Central venous catheter (CVP) line, a catheter placed into a large vein in the neck, chest, or groin.
  • Peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line, a catheter inserted in a peripheral vein in the arm.
  • Umbilical line, a catheter that is inserted into one of the two arteries or the vein of the umbilical cord.

Arts

• Line (singer) (born 1996), a Danish singer and finalist in the Danish X Factor
• The Line (game show), a 2014 American game show

Structures in works

• Line (heraldry), used to divide and vary fields and charges in heraldry
• Line (poetry), the fundamental unit of poetic composition
• Line (comics), a term to describe a subset of comic book series by a publisher
• A line of text in typography
• A sentence (or fragment) to be spoken by an actor, in a script or screenplay
• Line (melody), a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity
• Line (music) or part, a strand or melody of music played by an individual instrument or voice

Titled works

• Line (novel), a 1959 novel by Norwegian writer Axel Jensen
• Line (play), a 1967 long-running play written by Israel Horovitz
• The Line (memoir), a 2005 memoir written by Arch and Martin Flanagan
• The Line (play), a 2009 play by British dramatist Timberlake Wertenbaker
• "Lines" (Emily Brontë poem)
• "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey", a poem by William Wordsworth

Moving-image media

• The Line (film), a 2009 film
• "The Line" (Heroes), a 2007 episode of the American television series Heroes
• The Line (TV series), a Canadian television series

Music

• "Line" (song), a 2017 song by Triana Park
• Lines (album), a 1976 album by The Walker Brothers
• Lines (Pandelis Karayorgis album), a 1995 album by Pandelis Karayorgis & Eric Pakula
• "Lines" (song), a 1976 song written by the American singer-songwriter Jerry Fuller
• "The Line" (Lisa Stansfield song), a 1997 song by Lisa Stansfield from her album Lisa Stansfield
• "The Line" (Raye song), a 2017 song by Raye
• "The Line", a song by Battles
• "The Line", a song by Sadist from their album Lego
• "The Line", a song by Bruce Springsteen from his album The Ghost of Tom Joad

Military

• Line (formation), a standard tactical formation of forces
  • Line infantry, a line formation of infantrymen who were part of the "Line Regiments"
• Line of battle, in naval warfare, a line of warships

Sports

• Line (skateboarding), a series of three or more tricks landed in succession
• Line (ice hockey), a group of forwards that play in a group, or "shift", during a game
• Line and length, direction and point of bouncing on the pitch of a delivery in cricket
• Fishing line, a cord used or made for angling
• Kite line, twine or specialized line for flying kites
• Money line, in wagering, odds on the outcome of a game with no consideration to a point spread
• Racing line, in auto racing, a path taken through a corner
• Lineman (American football), a player who specializes in play at the line of scrimmage
• Line of scrimmage, in American and Canadian football, the divider between the offense and defense at the start of a play

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
• Waterline, the line where the hull of a ship meets the surface of the water

Business

• Line function, primary business activity that negatively affects income if interrupted
• Product lining, offering several related products for sale individually

Sewing and fashion

• Lining (sewing), an inner layer of fabric or other material inserted into clothing and similar items
• Empire line, a style in women's clothing in which the dress has a fitted bodice ending just below the bust
• Fashion line, a clothing subsidiary that designs and sells garments according to a specific ethos
• Style line, a line or curve in a garment that has a visual effect

Acronyms

• LINE (combat system), a martial arts system
• Long interspersed nuclear element (LINE), a type of retrotransposon in genomics

Places

• Lines, Norway, an island in the municipality of Åfjord in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway
• Line Islands, an island group in the central Pacific

People

• The Lines family of Birmingham, England, including:
  • Samuel Lines (1778–1863)^[1] and his sons^[2]
    • Samuel Rostill Lines (1804–1833)
    • Frederick Thomas Lines (1808–1898)
    • Henry Harris Lines (1800 or 1801–1889)
• Line (given name), a Danish and Norwegian female given name

Other uses

• Lines (punishment), punishment by forced writing of text
• Waiting in line, people queued (first-come, first-served) for goods or services
• Pick-up line, an introduction intended to get the interest of the other party

See also

• Lyne (disambiguation)
  • Lyne (surname)
• Liner (disambiguation)
• Lining (disambiguation)
• Linear (disambiguation)
• Rectilinear (disambiguation)
• All pages with a title containing Line

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