Crossword clues for nonlinear
The Collaborative International Dictionary
nonlinear \nonlinear\ adj.
(Math.) Not depictable graphically as a straight line; not changing by a constant amount for each unit of time, distance, or other independent variable. Opposite of linear.
(Math.) Containing variables of greater than the first degree; -- of an equation. Opposite of linear.
(Physics) Represented by equations containing variables of greater than the first degree; -- of physical processes or relationships. Opposite of linear.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a set of points English) not lying on a straight line 2 (context chemistry of a molecule English) whose atoms do not lie in a straight line 3 (context mathematics of a function English) having a product of independent variables, or a variable with an exponent not equal to one 4 (context of a system English) whose output is not directly proportional to its input 5 erratic and unpredictable; tending to jump back and forth
WordNet
adj. designating or involving an equation whose terms are not of the first degree [ant: linear]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "nonlinear".
In essence, Ravleen would be a functioning moron, incapable of million-tongue language skills or nonlinear modeling or even the cherished ability to use private, intra-Family channels.
Prophets made me their Emissary is because I already knew about nonlinear time.
As far as he was concerned, in a true realm of nonlinear time, even the simplest conversation would be impossible to conduct.
Garak pointed to the viewer, to the pale blue glow of the nonlinear realm.
The wormhole pocket will not only be nonlinear in time the way its two fragments were, it will also become dimensionless in space.
Prophets their realm of nonlinear time was without past, present, and future, it was that the past and present coexisted interchangeably within a third dimension of time, with only the future in flux.
In the realm of nonlinear time, the end of the universe was always there, always waiting for you.
If time in the red wormhole was nonlinear, anything could have happened by now, Sisko knew.
Like every other machine-based system on the station, Vic had emerged from the red wormhole in perfect operating condition, which in his case included a complete memory of meeting Odo in a nonlinear future.
The nonlinear dynamics of systems with that many variables is still beyond us.
The spread of infectious diseases, the intense coherence of a laser beam, the roiling motion of a turbulent fluid: All of these are governed by nonlinear equations.
And as for nonlinear techniques, the few that were available were restricted to very small systems, like a single oscillator or two coupled oscillators.
For the kind of question he was asking, about the population dynamics of thousands of interacting nonlinear oscillators, he would have to find his own way.
Here was a system of infinitely many differential equations, all nonlinear, all coupled together.
In my graduate school courses, we were always taught that large nonlinear systems were monsters, practically impossible to solve.