Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nearly linear.
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- adjective Placed below a line of text
- adjective botany Almost but not quite
linear in shape - adjective mathematics Describing a function that grows slower than a linear one
Etymologies
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Examples
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In some regimes, the growth is higher than expected linearly, in other regimes, it is sublinear etc.
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This sublinear dependence is discussed in the second link here – search for “climate CO2 sensitivity”.
Gerry North's Suggested Reading on Climate Models « Climate Audit 2007
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"Supralinear" means directly over a letter; "sublinear" means directly under a letter.
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The resource and energy networks that have evolved to sustain biological organisms and ecosystems are primarily dominated by economies of scale ( "sublinear scaling").
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009
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Can we return to an analogue of the sublinear, "biological" phase whence we evolved and its attendant, natural, no-growth, asymptotically stable configuration?
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009
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These are hard problems for sublinear space stream algorithms.
The Geomblog 2009
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It's very pleasing that as you add parallel client loads, the server pretty well just soaks it up with massively sublinear slowdown.
Planet Sun 2008
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It is not: the dependence is sublinear and it’s slowing down.
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I think it is obvious by the Arrhenius law etc. that the dependence is sublinear: the speed of temperature growth slows down as more GHG is added because one can’t absorb more than 100% of radiation at a spectral line, to be simple.
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It’s because the relation is sublinear, and the more CO2 there is, the less important new CO2 becomes.
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