Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: It also shows how causation distinguishes time from space, makes time linear, gives it its direction and enables us to perceive it.

Modifies a noun

• algebra: Even nonlinear problems usually involve linear algebra in their solution.

• equation: Von Koch's first results were on infinitely many linear equations in infinitely many unknowns.

• regression: The correlation between observations was tested using linear regression.

• accelerator: The radiation beams from a linear accelerator can treat a tumor with around 1mm precision.

• interpolation: Positions of the rest of the values are found by linear interpolation.

• earthwork: Most likely, Wansdyke was a defensive linear earthwork.

Modifying Another Word

• piecewise: As individual elements we choose piecewise linear or smooth maps, and compare results obtained in both cases.

• strictly: Agents of the Enlightenment thought history was strictly linear, he says.

• essentially: First, they have tended to see the global in terms of an essentially linear process, or linear processes, of globalization.

• approximately: Memory usage is approximately linear in RE size, and largely insensitive to RE complexity, except for bounded repetitions.

• fairly: This fall in heart rate is fairly linear, decreasing by approximately 1 beat per minute per year.

• locally: Therefore, these algorithms rely on a locally linear internal model of the black box.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: To rectify this I relocated both handles to the bottom edge in which the two points remain linear.

• become: Have you established that the relationship is linear or can be transformed to become linear?

• use: In television, I have used linear editing and Avid editing software, and have a working knowledge of DV Cams.

• look: If you place the dots with even spacing from frame to frame, the motion will look linear.

Preposition: in

• size: We show that graphs generated in this way have fairly large dominating sets ( i.e. , linear in the size of the graph ).

• range: The pharmacokinetics of valsartan are linear in the dose range tested.

Preposition: with

• respect: An obvious advantage of such algorithm would be that its time complexity will be linear with respect to the size of set of samples.