See Also: Midfield Line or Center Line - Soccer(gambling)
Forward Line or Attacking Line - Ice Hockey(gambling)
His' line(medicine)
line-out(dictionary)
line-up(dictionary)
in-line(dictionary)
Hot line(health)
Above the Line(money)
S-BP line(medicine)
S-N line(medicine)

in-line (iou)



in-line noun & adjective. E20.
[from IN-1 + LINE noun2.]
A. noun.
Typography. A typeface with a white line running through the thick strokes of the letters. E20.
An in-line engine. M20.
b. adjective.
(Composed of parts) arranged or situated in a line; esp. (of an internal-combustion engine) having (usu. vertical) cylinders arranged in one or more rows. E20.
Chiefly Engineering. Involving, employing, or forming part of a continuous, usu. linear, sequence of operations or machines (as in an assembly line). M20.
Computing.
a. Designating data processing which does not require input data to be sorted into batches. M20.
b. = ONLINE adjective 1. M20.
Typography. Designating or pertaining to a typeface with a white line running through the thick strokes of the letters. M20.
Special collocations: in-line skates a pair of roller skates in which the wheels on each boot are fixed in a single line along its sole.