linear
adjective
of, consisting of, or using lines.
linearly
-
a word derived from
linear.
Example Sentences
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This innovation goes back a ways, to Enzo Ferrari himself, who decreed that the power in his cars should always rise, linearly and proportionally, with throttle demand, from low revs to redline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
But the risk is going up, too, and the cost of risk isn’t going up linearly.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
The ensemble was excited by a linearly polarized green laser with a wavelength of 532 nanometers, and a high refractive index hemispherical lens was used to enhance the collection efficiency of the laser-induced fluorescence.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024
Such is the nature of science—it doesn’t march forward linearly toward some kind of perfect truth.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2023
Morgan and Sturtevant extended that anatomical strand in the 1920s, demonstrating that genes were material units, spread linearly along chromosomes.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
