linearly
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4.5
- adverb
- /ˈlɪniˌɛrli/
:
linealmente
- Whereas agriculture, he thought, increased linearly by the same fixed amount each year.
- cost increases linearly
- cost decreases linearly
- grows linearly
Our left hemisphere thinks linearly and methodically.
- Our left hemisphere thinks linearly and methodically.
- So you know, who knows, maybe it'll scale even better than linearly, but I would not expect that.
- A linear algorithm would execute a number of steps linearly proportional to the size.
- And that's why the book, you know, I tried to emotionally progress it rather than just linearly, right?
- We know the energy of a cow ball moving linearly.
- You don't want to be doing a linearly reciprocal motion.
Examples
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Does it scale perfectly linearly?
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Soil organic carbon content linearly decreased with vertical depth in all soil samples across all vegetation plots.
Academic text (2017) -
OK, so there are two linearly independent solutions.
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So the answer is yes, linearly independent.
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We experience narrative linearly, in time, usually over the course of hours or days.
Academic text (1990) -
Here, we simply assume that river temperature decreases linearly from late summer.
Academic text (2012) -
Heat capacities grow linearly with the number of particles in the system.
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With such low pressures, the stiffness was noted to increase linearly with the applied pressure.
Academic text (1994) -
Past victimization is linearly associated with all current assessments of Korea's external environment.
Academic text (2001) -
The temperature decreased linearly as the sun set over the horizon.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
In a direct line without turning
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5.6
In a straight, direct way without turning or avoiding
Antonyms
How Linear
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word linearly comes from linear, from the Latin linea meaning 'line' or 'thread', and it shares the same origin as the common word line. So, to do something linearly is to do it 'in a straight way' or 'so it changes evenly'.