Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as multilineal.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having many lines
  • adjective Having many linear aspects
  • adjective mathematics, of a function, etc. That is linear in each variable separately

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Examples

  • At the core of this paradigm is the notion of multilinear cultural evolution, multiple-branched evolution that saw highly diverse human societies evolve from the simple to the more complex in many different ways.

    2. Culture as Adaptation 2001

  • Bob recommended that we use a linear series of open environments instead -- what we now call a multilinear or foldback story, in which the player is compelled to go through certain choke points in the plot line.

    Gamasutra Feature Articles 2010

  • A balance of storming multilinear playing suggestive of Keith Jarrett, romantic ballads and fluent improvisation, it's another acceleration in a fast-lane career that shifted from gifted student status to rising star almost overnight.

    This week's new live music 2011

  • Rummel seems to be stale on multilinear regression.

    Multicollinearity and Micronumerosity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • My impression is that you have an unsavory combination of spurious regression and multilinear overfitting, creating quite a unique witches brew, the statistical properties of which are not understood by the authors.

    Rutherford et al [2005] Collation Errors « Climate Audit 2006

  • Well creating structure is what i am aiming at, so any resources you could give on multilinear editing, especially any sources on theory/history of it, I'd appreciate.

    Game programming in Norway Torill 2005

  • Anyways in that post you mention something about structuring a class for "multilinear editing" and I'm curious if you can point to me to any sources where I can learn some more on this topic.

    Game programming in Norway Torill 2005

  • The openness which is supposed to be central to the work on Capitalism and Schizophrenia so far reads like a game, a multilinear text or an ergodic text, where using the parts which makes sense to you, the reader/user, is more important than grasping the entire monolith of the work.

    03/01/2001 - 04/01/2001 Torill 2001

  • The openness which is supposed to be central to the work on Capitalism and Schizophrenia so far reads like a game, a multilinear text or an ergodic text, where using the parts which makes sense to you, the reader/user, is more important than grasping the entire monolith of the work.

    thinking with my fingers Torill 2001

  • The openness which is supposed to be central to the work on Capitalism and Schizophrenia so far reads like a game, a multilinear text or an ergodic text, where using the parts which makes sense to you, the reader/user, is more important than grasping the entire monolith of the work.

    Archive 2001-03-01 Torill 2001

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