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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
linear
adjective
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■ NOUN
accelerator
▪ The most appropriate way of accelerating charged particles for use in a propulsion system is to use a linear accelerator.
combination
▪ Clearly, the above technique may be applied using any linear combination of the Killing vectors.
▪ From these a geodesic surface can be formed which contains all the linear combinations, all of which are geodesics.
fashion
▪ Although this conversation too has sequences of opinion and justification, it does not proceed in a linear fashion.
▪ For analogue transmission, the light output must vary in linear fashion with the electrical inputs.
function
▪ The action chosen by the long-lived agent in each period is a linear function of its type.
▪ But more than that, linear functions are not very useful.
▪ It clearly shows that revenue and total cost are treated as simple linear functions of the number of units produced and sold.
▪ It is a linear function that has been clipped to minimum and maximum values, which then makes it nonlinear.
growth
▪ Several prospective studies have shown improvement in linear growth in individual children with nutritional restitution.
▪ The poorer prognosis for linear growth among boys who develop Crohn's disease before puberty has not been previously reported.
▪ Measurements of height and length remain the most important measurement for the assessment of skeletal linear growth.
▪ Four of the nine patients requiring a small intestinal biopsy had impaired linear growth emphasising the potential serious effects of this illness.
▪ After diagnosis, however, the prognosis for ultimate linear growth is good.
▪ Childhood Crohn's disease is often complicated by retardation of linear growth and pubertal development.
▪ The importance of early recognition of Crohn's disease before it has such an adverse impact on linear growth is highlighted.
model
▪ The interpretative can be viewed as the broadest perception, into which the adaptive and linear models can be fitted.
▪ The linear models were quite successful, the others inconclusive.
▪ One is its association with the rather questionable linear model of economic change proposed by Fisher and Clark.
▪ Research has suggested that the two linear models of innovation - technology push and market pull - are seriously flawed.
progression
▪ Such a history can not be represented by the movement of a linear progression of unfolding time.
▪ Unfortunately, even the most forward-looking women assume a linear progression toward equality.
regression
▪ Using multiple linear regression analysis, gastritis with atrophy was the only factor that had an independent negative effect on acid secretion.
▪ To investigate relations between sets of possible explanatory factors and each outcome variable a stepwise multiple linear regression analysis was used.
▪ Correlation studies were performed using linear regression and Spearman's correlation coefficients were calculated.
▪ Time trends and age at diagnosis were evaluated with a linear regression model by the method of least squares.
▪ We chose linear regression for describing the overall changes in mean sperm concentrations, but other statistical models have also been tested.
▪ Each patient had three measurements of bone mineral density and rates of bone loss were estimated by linear regression for each subject.
▪ Table V shows results of stepwise multiple linear regression analysis of outcome variables from the ventilated infants.
▪ The graph is a linear regression of.
relationship
▪ These linear relationships are plotted in Fig. 1 where both the consumption and saving relationships are seen to be straight lines.
▪ The state variable evolves according to the linear relationship.
▪ A linear relationship may be assumed.
▪ Dampers are carefully designed so that this linear relationship is preserved over a wide range of speed difference.
▪ We assume a simple linear relationship between irradiance and cycle length, consistent with ref. 8.
scale
▪ Both forms of game theory require that the possible outcome for a given player be ranked on a linear scale.
▪ The best model for organic relationships was a branching tree, not a linear scale.
▪ The linear scale was not, however, the only possibility now under consideration.
sequence
▪ But Isabella does not tell her story in linear sequence.
▪ The creation of linear sequences from the excerpts of our lives.
▪ Evolution became a ladder rather than a tree, a linear sequence of stages through which life had advanced towards the human form.
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▪ A factory-made widget once followed a linear path from design to manufacturing and delivery.
▪ Bourne says that the rewrite has now achieved linear performance increases across multiple processors running a database.
▪ If the half-slopes are nearly equal, the relationship is fairly linear.
▪ Its very strong and linear grain marking makes excellent leaf veining.
▪ Some of the math is quite sophisticated, using differential equations, linear algebra, and covariance matrices.
▪ That backward path is the foundation of Western, linear logic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
linear

left-brained \left"-brained`\, a. Exhibiting intellectual or personality characteristics suggesting dominance of linguistic or logical modes of thought, which are usually controlled by the left cerebral hemisphere; as, left-brained pedants unable to appreciate music; also referred to as linear. See linear[3]. Contrasted with right-brained.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
linear

1640s, from French linéaire, from Latin linearis "belonging to a line," from linea "string, line" (see line (n.)). Essentially the same word as lineal; "in Latin linearis the original suffix -alis was dissimilated to -aris, but in Late Latin this rule was no longer productive and the formation or re-formation in -alis remained unchanged." [Barnhart]. Linear A and Linear B (1902-3) were names given to two related forms of linear Minoan writing discovered 1894-1901 in Crete by Sir Arthur Evans.

Wiktionary
linear

a. 1 Having the form of a line; straight. 2 Of or relating to lines. 3 Made in a step-by-step, logical manner. 4 (context botany of leaves English) Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides. 5 (context mathematics English) Of or relating to a class of polynomial of the form y = ax + b . 6 (context physics English) A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (qualifier: as opposed to area or volume).

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WordNet
linear

  1. adj. designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree [syn: additive] [ant: nonlinear]

  2. of or in or along or relating to a line; involving a single dimension; "a linear foot" [syn: one-dimensional] [ant: planar, cubic]

  3. of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input; "analogue device"; "linear amplifier" [syn: analogue, analog] [ant: digital]

  4. of a leaf shape; long and narrow [syn: elongate]

  5. measured lengthwise; "cost of lumber per running foot" [syn: running(a)]

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Wikipedia
Linear (group)

Linear was an American freestyle- pop trio from Miami, Florida.

The lineup consisted of vocalist and main songwriter Charlie Pennachio, Ecuadorian guitarist Wyatt Pauley and conga player Joey Restivo. In 1990, the band had a hit with the gold single, " Sending All My Love", which was released on Atlantic Records and reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Two years later, they had another hit with the single "T.L.C.", which reached number 30. In 1990, they released their first album, followed in 1992 by their second.

Linear (disambiguation)

The word linear comes from the Latin word , which means created by lines.

Usage in mathematics:

  • Linearity
  • Linear algebra
  • Linear code
  • Linear cryptanalysis
  • Linear equation
  • Linear function
  • Linear functional
  • Linear map
  • Linear programming, a type of optimization problem
  • Linear system
  • Linear system of equations
  • Linear transformation

Usage in technology:

  • Particularly in electronics, a device whose characteristic or transfer function is linear, in the mathematical sense, is called linear
  • Linear amplifier, a component of amateur radio equipment
  • Linear element, part of an electric circuit
  • Linear medium, related to information storage and retrieval
  • Linear motor a type of electric motor
  • Linear phase, a property of an electronic filter
  • Linear Technology, an integrated circuit manufacturer
  • Linearity (computer and video games)

Other uses:

  • A leaf shape in botany
  • LINEAR, the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project
  • Linear A, one of two scripts used in ancient Crete
  • Linear B, a script that was used for writing Mycenaean, an early form of Greek
  • Linear counterpoint in music
  • Linear narrative structure
  • Linear (group), a pop music group popular in the 1990s
    • Linear (album), their group's debut album
  • Linear (film), a film that was released with the U2 album No Line on the Horizon
  • Linear molecular geometry in chemistry
  • Linear motion, motion along a straight line
  • Linearity (writing), describing whether symbols in a writing system are composed of lines
  • A kind of typeface in the VOX-ATypI classification
Linear (film)

Linear is a 2009 film directed by Anton Corbijn. The film includes music from U2's 2009 studio album, No Line on the Horizon, and was included on both digital and DVD formats with several editions of the album.

Linear (album)

Linear is the name of the debut studio album by the pop/freestyle group Linear. It was released on March 21, 1990, by Atlantic Records. The album's first single, Sending All My Love, reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 making the album itself reach #52 on the Billboard 200. It also won a Gold certificate the same year, for selling more than five hundred thousand copies in the United States. The second single, " Don't You Come Cryin'", did not repeat the success of the previous single - though it achieved some prominence, reaching the 70th spot on the Billboard Hot 100 list. The album's last single, "Something Going On", failed to succeed.

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Usage examples of "linear".

But in 1968 experimenters at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, making use of the increased capacity of technology to probe the microscopic depths of matter, found that protons and neutrons are not fundamental, either.

Lance Dixon of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center made a pivotal observation in this regard that was further amplified by Wolfgang Lerche of CERN, Vafa at Harvard, and Nicholas Warner, then of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The inner compartments were aligned with those along the edge, but instead contained linear signs.

No apologia is any more than a romance - half a fiction - in which all the successive identities taken on and rejected by the writer as a function of linear time are treated as separate characters.

For Dulness and for the dunces forward movement is inescapably circular, but the poem itself is linear.

As readers follow the circular movement of Dulness and the linear progress of the poem, they repeatedly look back to the classical tradition reflected in its style and structure and in its swarm of allusions, which are sometimes identified in the notes.

Hence the eidetic memory of childhood, enabling rules of perception to be developed, could smoothly transpose at the approach of puberty into the more linear forms of adult memory, whilst incorporating, for each individual, a uniquely tailored set of such rules which would order their later experience.

Already this chapter has referred to differences between eidetic and linear memory, between recognition and recall memory.

Roznine told us that you have had some credits under the name of Kail, Linear G resident.

Lane sensed the dangers of narrative when he refused to give linear shape to himself and to his information, preferring instead the monumental form of encyclopedic or lexicographical vision.

The leaves are linear, pinnate, lobed and serrated, hairy, rough, and numerously produced.

Without too much trouble, I could have fleshed it out into a complete linear narrative, but I liked the abbreviated format better: the last, hurried testament of a tragic heroine, doomed to die on Muta or be consumed by parasitic spores.

Attempting to make his critical reflection historical and chronological would therefore be as ridiculous and nonsensical as wanting to reconstruct a linear plot from his novelistic variations.

His indication points to nothing less than a leading over of the optically produced spectrum from its usual linear form, with two boundaries on either side, into a closed circular form, and of doing this by an adequate application - as yet undiscovered - of magnetic force.

Postmodern experience no longer conforms to the print-centered, phallocentric paradigm of a distanced, objectifying, linear, and perspectival vision.