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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.