linear

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Leaves: narrow-linear, acutely acuminate, with the point often recurved, entire, rather thick, narrowed into a short petiole, two to four inches long; fruit unknown Australian Tobacco," NICOTIAN SUAVEOLENS.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or resembling a line; straight.
  2. adjective In, of, describing, described by, or related to a straight line.
  3. adjective Having only one dimension.
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  • Maybe time is non-linear, and anything that you do occurs in the order that it applies directly to you, regardless of some chronological law of finite time. —  The Toque
  • Climate is not linear, which is why Dr. Roy Spencer fits his UAH curves with a fourth or fifth order function, rather than a line. —  Watts Up With That?
  • Expansion of mercury is not linear, and the gas the liquid is pushing aside is pushing back … —  RealClimate
  • Since effects of temperature on evapo-transpiration are very non-linear, the decline could be rapid, or even abrupt. —  RealClimate
  • This problem is modeled with a non-linear, multi-objective formulation. —  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News
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  1. Latin līneāris, from līnea, line; see line1.

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  1. = French linéaire = Spanish Portuguese linear = Italian lineare, from Latin linearis, belonging to a line, from linea, a line: see line, n. Cf. lineal.
 

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