Definition of Linear

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Definition of Linear
	Linear Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal. Like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf. Related Definitions: As, At, Breadth, Consisting, Direction, Except, Extremities, In, Leaf, Like, Line, Lineal, Linear, Narrow, Of, Or, Pertaining, Same, Straight, The, Throughout, To

Linear Quotations

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.
Ann Coulter

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
Imelda Marcos

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.
Stanislav Grof

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Larry Wall

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth.
Sanjay Kumar

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.
Robyn Hitchcock

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
Penelope Lively

Linear Translations

linear in German is linear

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