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Crosssection vs Linear - What's the difference?

crosssection | linear |

As a noun crosssection

is .

As an adjective linear is

linear (in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial).

crosssection

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * 1956 . Journal of the American Helicopter Society , page 41.
  • Typically, damage initiates at the smaller crosssection end of the truncated cone.
  • * 1970 . IEEE Electron Devices Society. Reliability Physics , page 136.
  • If a circuit is 200 rails in length, and the final crosssection is 100 mils into the circuit, one could rough grind approximately 80 mils to the final...
  • * 1986 . Aage Bøttger Sørensen, Franz E. Weinert, and Lonnie R. Sherrod. Human Development and the Life Course: Multidisciplinary Perspectives , page 156.
  • Equally important, each crosssection slice denotes the age structure of roles in the society
  • * 2000 . Paul Langacker. Neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics , page 87.
  • Indeed, the WW crosssection is related to the imaginary part of the WW loop

    linear

    English

    (wikipedia linear)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the form of a line; straight.
  • Of or relating to lines.
  • Made in a step-by-step, logical manner.
  • (botany, of leaves) Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides.
  • (mathematics) Of or relating to a class of polynomial of the form y = ax + b .
  • (physics) A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).
  • See also

    * quadratic * cubic * quartic * quintic * linear algebra * areal

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