Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word LINEAR

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Definitions of LINEAR

1. Having the form of a line; straight or roughly straight; following a direct course.
2. Of or relating to lines.
3. Made, or designed to be used, in a step-by-step, sequential manner.
4. (botany, of leaves) Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides.
5. (mathematics) (of polynomials or polynomial equations)
6. (mathematics) (of functions or maps)
7. (physics) A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).
8. (radio slang) Ellipsis of linear amplifier..
9. (astronomy) A comet, cataloged as “C/1999 S4”, discovered on September 27, 1999, by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program in New Mexico. (See [https://web.archive.org/web/20051220100856/http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/comets/linear.html]) Sometimes spelled LINEAR.
10. (astronomy) Initialism of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program.

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Examples of Using LINEAR in a Sentence

• Other terms for the same concept include partial phonemic script, segmentally linear defective phonographic script, consonantary, consonant writing, and consonantal alphabet.
• The name belongs to the most ancient attested Greek names (a-re-ke-se-u in the Linear B tablets KN Df 1229 and MY Fu 718).
• Angular momentum (sometimes called moment of momentum or rotational momentum) is the rotational analog of linear momentum.
• As found in nature, agar is a mixture of two components, the linear polysaccharide agarose and a heterogeneous mixture of smaller molecules called agaropectin.
• The time complexity of operations on the binary search tree is linear with respect to the height of the tree.
• In mathematics, a bilinear map is a function combining elements of two vector spaces to yield an element of a third vector space, and is linear in each of its arguments.
• Bra–ket notation, also called Dirac notation, is a notation for linear algebra and linear operators on complex vector spaces together with their dual space both in the finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional case.
• Computationally, a context-sensitive language is equivalent to a linear bounded nondeterministic Turing machine, also called a linear bounded automaton.
• Exact conservation laws include conservation of mass-energy, conservation of linear momentum, conservation of angular momentum, and conservation of electric charge.
• A particular case is that of a complex algebra A of continuous linear operators on a complex Hilbert space with two additional properties:.
• Conjugate gradient method, an algorithm for the numerical solution of particular systems of linear equations.
• Dividing a polynomial by a linear factor which decreases its degree by one in multiple root-finding algorithms, as done for example in the Jenkins–Traub algorithm.
• When defined for a topological vector space, there is a subspace of the dual space, corresponding to continuous linear functionals, called the continuous dual space.
• Its value characterizes some properties of the matrix and the linear map represented, on a given basis, by the matrix.
• It uses the techniques of differential calculus, integral calculus, linear algebra and multilinear algebra.
• A linear Diophantine equation equates to a constant the sum of two or more monomials, each of degree one.
• Examples include quotient spaces in linear algebra, quotient spaces in topology, quotient groups, homogeneous spaces, quotient rings, quotient monoids, and quotient categories.
• Linear filters process time-varying input signals to produce output signals, subject to the constraint of linearity.
• This process involved the gradual development of traits such as human bipedalism, dexterity, and complex language, as well as interbreeding with other hominins (a tribe of the African hominid subfamily), indicating that human evolution was not linear but weblike.
• Functional analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis, the core of which is formed by the study of vector spaces endowed with some kind of limit-related structure (for example, inner product, norm, or topology) and the linear functions defined on these spaces and suitably respecting these structures.

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