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linear

A linear, model, system, relationship, etc. is one where a change in one part leads to a similar change in another part. There is a linear relationship between levels of self-confidence and levels of anxiety. If something is linear, it is straight or flat, not curved. The ants didn't follow a direct or linear path.

linear

designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree of or in or along or relating to a line; involving a single dimension a linear measurement (of a leaf shape) long and narrow (= running) measured lengthwise cost of lumber per running foot (= analogue, analog) of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input analogue device linear amplifier

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Simple sentences

Is the system linear?
This system of linear equations has infinitely many solutions.
This system of linear equations has exactly one solution.

Movie subtitles

Is that a linear belt?
He's not an officer, for all his voice and his linear belt.
Where I lived was with my dada and mum in municipal flat block 18-A, Linear North.
Then you must have noticed the linear nature of those scorch marks.
Now, the marks are a very definite shape, a linear shape, like this.
They get out their linear programming charts. statistical decision theories, minimax solutions and compute. price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments like we do.
Would you try to have a linear conversation, Martin?
Linear and inverse vectors merge in zero.
In strictly linear terms, as the chronometer flies. I've known since November the twenty-third, 1638.
I mean, baseball seems like a linear game with all those lines and box scores.
Well,. this is a sample of linear memory-crystal from our computer core.
My total linear speed has been rated at 60 trillion operations per second.
Her species may have a perception that goes beyond linear time.
There's a curved effect within traditional linear principles.
They get out their linear programming charts statistical decision theories, minimax solutions and compute price-cost probabilities of transactions and investments just like we do.
How's the linear momentum?
What's that got to do -- Follow me, i'm being linear.
Katherine Pulaski? Author of Linear Models of Viral Propagation?
No? Non-linear equations?
Then, for you, there is no linear time.
Linear time?
That is the nature of linear existence.
In a linear existence, we can't go back to the past to get something we left behind, so it's lost.
And the Linear pocket-pager- beeper-garage-door-opener.
Non-linear equations?
That is the essence of a linear existence.
Your linear nature is inherently destructive.
Linear procreation?
What's important is it's linear.
The termination of their linear existence.
It is not linear.

News and current affairs

Finally, crises are highly non-linear events, which means that they occur without much warning.
Deciphering the structure of the web of contracts holds the key to understanding how an economy behaves, including its dynamic non-linear adaptation to internal and external forces.
The international community must recognize that the Middle East security equation is not a simple linear one involving Israel versus the Arab world.
Moreover, linear projections of economic growth trends can be misleading.
Today, however, they serve as a useful reminder about the danger of linear projections based on rapidly rising power resources.
The ancient Greeks had no idea of progress, directional time, and linear history, culminating in humankind.
However, unemployment has increased from one boom to the next, with the lowest rate in each business cycle following a linear upward trend.
Technology-fueled development is causing historical eras to become cumulative, rather than linear.
Turing proposed that all computations and logical operations could be performed by a simple machine, which he called the Universal Turing Machine, reading and modifying a linear sequence of symbols.
Perhaps rise and fall is more of a cyclical than a linear phenomenon.
But, whatever the merits of this linear economic projection, the term BRICs still makes little sense for long-term assessments of global power relations.
But that optimistic assessment overestimates the renminbi's prospects and illustrates the danger of linear extrapolation of the past into the future.
But, in order to build the disease networks of tomorrow, we will need to move beyond the current linear approaches to science and to how scientists work.
In fact, that question is wedded to an obsolete linear model of innovation.
Economic growth, of course, has never been linear in any country.
Looking at the five-year survival rates for children with ALL from the 1970's through the 1990's, one sees an almost linear improvement in cure rates.
But the relationship between growth and political stability is subtler and less linear than we like to believe.
Moreover, the potential impact certainly is not linear.
We appear to live in a time that has witnessed the absolute failure of the grand Enlightenment dreams of linear progress, universal peace, and equality between rich and poor.
We believed that, though progress may not be linear, we could count on it.
The comparison of linear polymers - proteins made up of chains of amino acids, or DNA made up of chains of nucleotides - held out the promise of a simple tabular approach to evolution.
The Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary have moved in this direction, preparing to target a steady, linear inflation path consistent with the long-term inflation forecast for the eurozone.
True, the West is no longer alone in dictating the global agenda, and its values are bound to be increasingly challenged by emerging powers, but its decline is not a linear, irreversible process.

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