linear
adjective
of, consisting of, or using lines.
linearly
-
a word derived from
linear.
Example Sentences
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Zhao admits that she rarely preplans the endings of her films because she doesn’t tell stories linearly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2025
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
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
“Which is drawn linearly, long and narrow. Do you see?”
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
