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
Chadwick and fellow scientist Scott Nooner predicted the volcano’s 2015 eruption seven months before it happened after they realized the seafloor was inflating quite quickly and linearly.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025
It has already been established that two classes of polarised, linearly and circularly, can detect changes in skin that aren't visible to the human eye.
From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2024
From our first conversations we assumed that the DNA molecule contained a very large number of nucleotides linearly linked together in a regular way.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
