unilinear
- adjective
- /ˌjuːnɪˈlɪnɪər/
- Specialized
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unilineal
- The family's inheritance followed a unilinear path, passing down from grandparents to parents to children.
- unilinear evolution
- unilinear model
Examples
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In the end, what the Mexican case reveals is that church-state relations do not follow a simple, unilinear path from establishment to disestablishment as predicted by the more elementary forms of secularization theory.
Academic text (1999) -
Recent setbacks in the Arab world reinforce the painful lesson that democratization is hardly rapid or unilinear.
Academic text (1994) -
And that really implies quite a unilinear change.
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Its faith reposes in novel institutions, changed human nature, and a unilinear theory of progress.
Academic text (1991) -
They did not accept the new land policy because the unilinear principles were not inherently beneficial.
Academic text (1991) -
And those crises have not, as the unilinear modernizationists hoped, led either necessarily or even probably to democratic outcomes.
Academic text (1991) -
In biology, a unilinear system of inheritance ensures traits are passed on in a straight line from one generation to the next.
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The project's development took a unilinear approach, progressing step by step without deviation from the original plan.
Synonyms
1
8.0
Directly related to an ancestor
1
9.9
A single line you can draw without lifting your pen
1
7.7
Family line traced through only the mother or the father
Having parts in a single row
Antonyms
- Specialized
A rule where the output changes at a fixed rate with each input when others stay fixed
How Directional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unilinear comes from uni- meaning 'one' and linear meaning 'line' or 'straight line'. So think of a single path or a single continuous stroke that goes in one direction, and unilinear describes something that follows that single line or order.