An entire culture of American neo-conservatives has seemed to build itself on a type of knee-jerk reaction to any kind of criticism of the Bush Administration or the loyal element of the Republican Party, even from fellow conservatives -- the kind of pseudo-patriotism discouraged by Theodore Roosevelt. 1  by LudwigVan November 10, 2003.
2. of or relating to the horizon. 3. (Mathematics) measured or contained in a plane parallel to that of the horizon. 4. applied uniformly or equally to all members of a group. 5. (Economics) economics relating to identical stages of commercial activity: horizontal integration.
The definition of linear is consisting of or using lines. An example of linear is the length of a section of sidewalk.