linearity
Americannoun
plural
linearities-
the property, quality, or state of being linear.
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Television. the accuracy with which the shapes in a televised image are reproduced on the screen of a receiving set.
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Electronics. the measure of the extent to which a certain response is directly proportional to the applied excitation.
Etymology
Origin of linearity
Example Sentences
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While “You Are the Detective” offers a semblance of linearity, another new gamebook—“Can You Solve the Murder?”
Foreman and the Wooster Group share an aversion to linearity, psychological realism and didacticism of any kind.
From Los Angeles Times
When he put together a manifesto for Black Dada in 2008, he wrote, “History is in fact an incomplete cube shirking linearity.”
From New York Times
She credits the playwright with freeing her from the constraints of naturalism and linearity: “The world is a fragmented place … it’s not beginning, middle, end. I was so happy to have that verified for me.”
From New York Times
Its abstract, marbled linearity is composed from an interaction with wind, which moved the liquid materials around on the sheet until they dried.
From Los Angeles Times
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