Departure is the actual linear distance measured on a parallel of Latitude between two meridians.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Ernest Gallaudet Draper
I believe, however, that the free verse writers have a right to make such linear arrangement.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
Lastly,-the proof that all the writings in question belong to the same linear series, and represent the growth of the same phenomena in the same place is deficient.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham