In a linear address space, memory appears to a program as a single, continuous address space.
An address for any byte in linear address space is called a linear address.
One Linear address corresponds to one location in the Linear address space.
Linear address space is byte addressable, with addresses running contiguously from 0 to 232 - 1 (if not in 64-bit mode).
In the flat memory model, the component of a program (Code, Data, and stacks) are all contained in a linear address space (and are therefore not split)
The segmented model is mapped into a linear address space.
When an operating system or executive uses paging, the application sees a linear address space (the paging mechanism is transparent to the application program).
A linear address space is the only address space that can be paged.
The processor address space is linear and is called the physical address space