Linear vs Revolve - What's the difference?
linear | revolve |
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 .
(physics) A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).
(label) To orbit a central point.
To turn on an axis.
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(label) To recur in cycles.
(label) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', Bk.2, Ch.6, ''Monk Samson :
As an adjective linear
is linear (in mathematics, of first-degree polynomial).As a verb revolve is
(label) to orbit a central point.linear
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(wikipedia linear)Adjective
(en adjective)See also
* quadratic * cubic * quartic * quintic * linear algebra * arealAnagrams
* ----revolve
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Verb
- It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve . There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
- He sits silent, revolving many thoughts, at the foot of St. Edmund’s Shrine.