Sample Sentences for
linear
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    The runners followed a linear course along the river, with no sharp turns or detours.
    linear = straight
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    Her career followed a linear path, moving steadily from intern to manager without major detours.
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    These are described by what are called linear equations, and mathematicians can solve those equations easily.  (source)
    linear = graphed as a straight line
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    Or how about a linear accelerator, just a small one so I can split a few atoms?†  (source)
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    From his own experiences in Vietnam and his reading of the German military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, Van Riper became convinced that war was inherently unpredictable and messy and nonlinear.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonlinear means not and reverses the meaning of linear. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    Which is drawn linearly, long and narrow.†  (source)
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    Linearity is an artificial way of viewing the world.†  (source)
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    Their eyes would follow a tree down—linear, linear, bump at the bottom.†  (source)
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    My head was swimming; I hoped it was Shay's nonlinear speech, and not a panic attack coming on.†  (source)
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    At some indefinite passage in night's sonorous score, it also came to her that she would be safe, that something, perhaps only her linearly fading drunkenness, would protect her.†  (source)
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    And chaos theory teaches us," Malcolm said, "that straight linearity, which we have come to take for granted in everything from physics to fiction, simply does not exist.†  (source)
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    The Semites also had in common a linear view of history.†  (source)
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    Turbulent events are described by nonlinear equations.  (source)
    nonlinear = not graphed as a straight line
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