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Noun edit

lininess (uncountable)

  1. The property of resembling or consisting of lines.
    • 1954, Edward Molloy, John Patrick Hawker, Television Engineers' Pocket Book, page 27:
      The acceptability of a television picture is also governed by its size, colour and freedom from interfering signals, flicker and lininess.
    • 1995, Proceedings, Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision (June 20-23, 1995, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts) (page 197)
      Among other possible measures we try a line-oriented one, "lininess", in Section 6.