linear

Definitions

Arranged in or extending along a straight or nearly straight line.

Involving or exhibiting directly proportional change in two related quantities.

Progressing from one stage to another in a single series of steps.

Examples

The growth of the company has been remarkably linear over the past five years.

The professor explained the concept of linear equations during the mathematics lecture.

The film's plot follows a simple linear narrative that is easy for the audience to track.

Synonyms

straight sequential consecutive direct unidirectional successive continuous

Antonyms

nonlinear curved branching erratic random complex multi-dimensional