[ UK /lˈɪni‍ə/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɪniɝ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. measured lengthwise
    cost of lumber per running foot
  2. (of a leaf shape) long and narrow
  3. of or in or along or relating to a line; involving or having a single dimension
    a linear measurement
  4. of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input
    linear amplifier
    analogue device
  5. designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree
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How To Use linear In A Sentence

  • This came out of an investigation he was carrying out into when a ternary quartic form could be represented as the sum of five fourth powers of linear forms.
  • We're currently shrinking the size of technology by a factor of 5.6 per linear dimension per decade, so it is conservative to say that this scenario will be feasible in a few decades.
  • Our nearest relatives, the chimps tend towards matrilinear, while patrilinear seems more prevalent in a majority of the different aboriginity groups in more modern times. Discovered: the basis of human civilization.
  • Fitness functions include a simple linear problem for binary strings and classification of data sets which are dynamically loaded from a specified data file.
  • In the first half maybe evern longer, his art was much more clean, smooth, and linear, whereas much later, he developed the blockier style of Kirby. Top 100 Comic Book Runs #30-26 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • Linear, scientific perspective allows for a fairly accurate mental reconstruction of the distances separating objects.
  • The researchers have used supercritical CO 2 as medium for the conversion of alcohols to linear and branched ethers, to cyclic ethers, to aryl ethers and to acetals and ketals in good yields and, all-importantly, with high selectivities.
  • It's not necessarily linear - there are stages, but there are many peaks and valleys.
  • Early ideas had envisaged a mobile linear defence. NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda
  • For example, synchrotrons, cyclotrons, linear accelerators and interplanetary spacecraft all cost too much for single investigators.
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