linear

Though real magnets are three-dimensional, Ising simplified the situation to a linear chain of arrows, each capable of sensing its two nearest neighbors.

Lepore has a different, though still linear, metaphor for the history of feminism: “a river, wending.”

He is known to be difficult, because of his love of the Latinate, and his non-linear, digressive, even symphonic, narrative style.

But the reasoning only made sense if the tumor grew in a linear, predictable way.

In his own words it was “the linear equivalent of the sensation of flight.”

I call them Hyperserials: shows with a purer, more intense focus on one linear, series-long plotline.

The child now aims at constructing a particular linear representation, that of a man, a horse, or what not.

Curious differences appear in respect of the completeness of this linear noting or enumerating of features.

This habit of scribble may persist after a child attempts a linear description of the parts of an object.

Now the series treated of in the text agrees with this linear progression in nothing whatever but in being a progression.

She says 'fifteen hundred feet'; the law says she ought t' read 'fifteen hundred linear feet.'