0 consisting of or to do with lines: --
a linear diagram
1 relating to length, rather than area or volume: --
linear measurement
2 involving a series of events or thoughts in which one follows another one directly: --
Is there a linear relationship between salaries and productivity?
These mental exercises are designed to break linear thinking habits and encourage creativity.
3 used to refer to traditional television in which programmes are broadcast at particular times on particular channels to a general audience: --
The BBC says that viewers are watching 44% more linear channels compared with this time last year.
Linear TV is the traditional way television has been provided to households for decades.
5 (esp. of stories or ideas) continuing in a clear and reasonable way from one part to the next: --
The book offers excitement, linear plot development, and dramatic descriptions.
We obtained similar results in a linear regression model with adjustment for confounding variables.
Linear combination may not, however, be the best way of reducing the dimension of the variable space.
With regard to the correct use of direct speech, a linear age function emerged.
However, these authors described bacterial contamination by linear or quadratic functions.
Therefore, it is unlikely that the microbial content of residues can be described by linear or quadratic models.
One can therefore speculate that deep, semantic processes could reveal non-linear functions and thus provide evidence for separate mechanisms for processing upright and inverted faces.
In each task, the linear component reached a significant threshold.
Thus, we could cautiously conclude that a linear relationship exists.