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linearity

[lin-ee-ar-i-tee] / ˌlɪn iˈær ɪ ti /


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Calibration curves for all eight PAHs showed exceptional linearity, with the R2 value surpassing 0.99.

From Science Daily Dec. 1, 2025

While “You Are the Detective” offers a semblance of linearity, another new gamebook—“Can You Solve the Murder?”

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2025

For those with certain cognitive conditions who move between devices, the linearity of the accessibility features across platforms means a more comforting, consistent experience.

From The Verge Jul. 11, 2022

Kennedy reminds us that a play can also be a theatrical poem, that a drama can be divided into movements instead of acts and that circularity can do things linearity can’t even imagine.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 2, 2021

The chain reaction of discoveries—linkage, crossing over, the linearity of genetic maps, the distance between genes—burst forth with such ferocity that it seemed, at times, that genetics was not born but zippered into existence.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

One of his gratuitous victims: famed Dutch Abstractionist Piet Mondrian, whose linoleum-like linearities have floored museum walls for two decades.

From Time Magazine Archive




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