Definitions for linear

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linear lin·e·ar

Spelling: [lin-ee-er]

IPA: /ˈlɪn i ər/

Linear is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in linear (aeilnr).

Definitions for linear

adjective

1. of, consisting of, or using lines:
2. pertaining to or represented by lines:
3. extended or arranged in a line:
4. involving measurement in one dimension only; pertaining to length:
5. of or relating to the characteristics of a work of art in which forms and rhythms are defined chiefly in terms of line.
6. having the form of or resembling a line:
7. Mathematics. consisting of, involving, or describable by terms of the first degree. having the same effect on a sum as on each of the summands:
8. Electronics. delivering an output that is directly proportional to the input:
9. threadlike; narrow and elongated:

Origin of linear

First recorded in 1635-45, linear is from the Latin word līneāris of, belonging to lines. See line¹, -ar¹

Examples for linear

They ascertain politics as sequential, linear, and deterministic.

But the reasoning only made sense if the tumor grew in a linear, predictable way.

To this linear perspective is added moreover an atmospheric perspective.

linear, elongated oblong, more than three times as long as wide.

In his own words it was “the linear equivalent of the sensation of flight.”

The Egyptians do not appear to have made any use of linear perspective.

I call them Hyperserials: shows with a purer, more intense focus on one linear, series-long plotline.

linear Logic Language, the pitfall of all the old researchers.

The order of words in a book is dictated by the linear nature of the medium.

It is a simple, linear view of how things work—if a measured amount of something is good, an all-out amount of it must be better.