Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of being linear.
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- noun The state of being
linear . - noun mathematics A
relationship between severalquantities which can be considered asproportional and expressed in terms oflinear algebra , or any mathematical property of a relationship, operation or function that is analogous to suchproportionality , satisfyingadditivity andhomogeneity .
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- noun the property of having one dimension
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Examples
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Where formal gardens find beauty in linearity, English gardens use undulating lines.
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After that the deviation from linearity is increasingly large.
Economists Too Linear?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The subjective non-linearity is obvious: the difference between probabilities of
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This alien race can see in four dimensions (the fourth being time, of course), and so they understand that linearity is an illusion – every moment of a person’s life is happening at the same time, always.
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Author Ken Robinson, in a recent TED talk, decries this accepted notion of college-as-consumption, referring to it as "the idea of linearity" in education, that "it starts here, and you go through a track, and if you do everything right, you'll end up set for the rest of your life."
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Author Ken Robinson, in a recent TED talk, decries this accepted notion of college-as-consumption, referring to it as "the idea of linearity" in education, that "it starts here, and you go through a track, and if you do everything right, you'll end up set for the rest of your life."
Lauren Bailey: Sheepskin and the Herd: Why Passive Student Consumption of Higher Ed Is Destroying Critical Thought Lauren Bailey 2010
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The only assumption is linearity, which is always a reasonable assumption for small perturbations.
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It will push a certain amount of linearity, which is inevitable, but I think it's really important to sell those experiences and for the player to get as deep as they can.
IGN PS3 2010
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So you're just saying the linearity was a little better than you've seen in the more recent quarters, if not a typical quarter.
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I guess at the beginning, maybe they thought that there was some kind of linearity; that they could go from a gene to a gene product to a diagnostic or a treatment.
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