Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mathematics, a determinant.
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- adjective Above a
line - adjective mathematics Describing a function that grows faster than a
linear one
Etymologies
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Examples
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However, the dark side of urban life manifests an analogous "superlinear" behavior.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009
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"superlinear" so long as they manage not to choke on their own congestion.
Fast Company 2010
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My (very vague) understanding of this crisis is that the banks have (essentially) made bets on the average house price, with a superlinear payoff.
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We refer to this systematic phenomenon as "superlinear scaling": The bigger the city, the more the average citizen owns, produces, and consumes, whether it's goods, resources, or ideas.
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We refer to this systematic phenomenon as "superlinear scaling": The bigger the city, the more the average citizen owns, produces, and consumes, whether it's goods, resources, or ideas.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009
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In contrast, the social networks that underlie the "superlinear scaling" of wealth creation, innovation, crime, and pollution behave in exactly the opposite fashion: The bigger the organization, the faster the pace of life.
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We refer to this systematic phenomenon as "superlinear scaling": The bigger the city, the more the average citizen owns, produces, and consumes, whether it's goods, resources, or ideas.
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In contrast, the social networks that underlie the "superlinear scaling" of wealth creation, innovation, crime, and pollution behave in exactly the opposite fashion: The bigger the organization, the faster the pace of life.
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In contrast, the social networks that underlie the "superlinear scaling" of wealth creation, innovation, crime, and pollution behave in exactly the opposite fashion: The bigger the organization, the faster the pace of life.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009
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In contrast, in social organizations where growth is driven by superlinear scaling, growth is unbounded, never reaching an "asymptotic" stable state, and proceeding at a rate that is faster than exponential.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009
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