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linear | American Dictionary

linear
adjective
us/ˈlɪn·i·ər/

linearadjective (LENGTH)

[ not gradable ]
relating to length, rather than area or volume:
This carpet costs $12 per linear foot.

linearadjective (REASONABLE)

(esp. of stories or ideas) continuing in a clear and reasonable way from one part to the next:
The book offers excitement, linear plot development, and dramatic descriptions.

linearadjective (LONG MARK)

[ not gradable ]
consisting of or related to straight lines:
The garden has very linear paths.

linear | Business English

linear
adjective
uk /ˈlɪniər/us
involving a series of events or thoughts in which one follows another directly:
These mental exercises are designed to break linear thinking habits.
direct and clear:
Is there a linear relationship between salaries and productivity?

Examples of linear

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A linear displacement of the rib space will therefore not produce a linear displacement of muscle fibers.
Instead, we tend to see weak associations between environmental and transmission variables when measured by simple, linear correlations.
In a second type of linear effect, the rhythmic component of a signal could be obscured by high baseline activity.
A linear expansion around the fixed points tells us whether the mutant can invade an established wild-type population or vice versa.
Theoreticians define it also as the next (anharmonic or nonlinear) approximation after the first (harmonic or linear) one.
The linear regression equation accounted for 99.7 per cent of the variance.
The costs increase with dependency but in institutions the relationship is not linear.
Thus, we could cautiously conclude that a linear relationship exists.
In each task, the linear component reached a significant threshold.
One can therefore speculate that deep, semantic processes could reveal non-linear functions and thus provide evidence for separate mechanisms for processing upright and inverted faces.
Therefore, it is unlikely that the microbial content of residues can be described by linear or quadratic models.
However, these authors described bacterial contamination by linear or quadratic functions.
With regard to the correct use of direct speech, a linear age function emerged.
Linear combination may not, however, be the best way of reducing the dimension of the variable space.
We obtained similar results in a linear regression model with adjustment for confounding variables.
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