Used in a Sentence

linearly

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for linearly.

Editorial note

Since the radius grows linearly, you can map any linearly growing series of data and you'll find it looks good in this presentation format.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

In a linear manner.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of linearly gathered in one view.

adverb

In a linear manner.

adverb

In a straight line.

adverb

Sequentially in time; chronologically.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for linearly.

adverb

In a linear manner.

adverb

In a straight line.

adverb

Sequentially in time; chronologically.

adverb

In the manner of a linear function.

Example sentences

1

Since the radius grows linearly, you can map any linearly growing series of data and you'll find it looks good in this presentation format.

2

The amount of code you can write grows linearly with number of engineers, but communication costs grow quadratically.

3

Willingness to risk that money increases with the time it took to save it, and not just linearly.

4

And since the absolute total has grown close to linearly, the tree rings are not that misleading after all.

5

It's horrible value for multiple employees to linearly increase the total paid when they use Photoshop or Illustrator occasionally.

6

The average human lifespan in the United States has been increasing linearly by about 2 months per year since 1980.

7

The reason people are non-linearly scanning text is not because they are managing their time poorly.

8

The block chain does not grow 'infinitely' it grows linearly at a predictable maximum rate.

9

Sample size doesn't scale linearly with population size, it converges as population approaches infinity.

10

In general, bugs in a system are exponentially not linearly proportional to system complexity.

11

The article only describes linearly polarization.

12

Also, you can have a pure Timsort with linearly or affinely typed arrays.

Quote examples

1

That "ton of design and equipment" doesn't scale particularly well, as its cost grows highly super-linearly with the computing power.

2

And your answer is, "well, if animals were 5 times larger than they usually are, then I don't understand how you don't understand." I'm saying it doesn't scale linearly.

3

Is there a name for the (anti?)pattern where a company pushes hard to be considered a "product" company, but has to scale its hiring to its customers pretty linearly?

Proper noun examples

1

Linearly scanning the entire genome from ram for example, could be significantly better than performing multiple index lookups from disk.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use linearly in a sentence?

Since the radius grows linearly, you can map any linearly growing series of data and you'll find it looks good in this presentation format.

What does linearly mean?

In a linear manner.

What part of speech is linearly?

linearly is commonly used as adverb.