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nonlinear

nonlinear adjective: of a set of points, not lying on a straight line.

Adjective

nonlinear (not comparable)

  1. Of a set of points, not lying on a straight line.
    Antonyms:
    linear
  2. Of a molecule, whose atoms do not lie in a straight line.
  3. Of a function, having a product of independent variables, or a variable with an exponent not equal to one.
  4. Of a system, whose output is not directly proportional to its input.
  5. Erratic and unpredictable; tending to jump back and forth.
    • a film with a nonlinear plot

nonlinear meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Indonesian

nonlinear in Hindi

of a set of points: not lying on a straight line
अरैखिक araikhik, अरेखीय arekhīya

nonlinear in Tamil

நேரிலா, நேர்ப்பாங்கற்ற, நேர் பாக்கிலா

nonlinear in Kannada

ನೇರವಲ್ಲದ, ಬಾಗಿದ, ಡೊಂಕಾದ, ಒಂದೇ ಸಾಲಿನಲ್ಲಿರದ

nonlinear in Indonesian

mathematics, of a function
nirlanjar, tak lanjar

Examples of nonlinear in a sentence

  • Such 4-dimensional multisphere distributions are also shown to be statistically invariant under 4-dimensional nonlinear transmission in fibers..
  • Thus we negatively answer Morrey's conjecture in the subclass of isochoric nonlinear energies, since polyconvexity implies quasiconvexity.
  • For the optimization a regularized nonlinear conjugate gradient scheme and a cascadic multilevel strategy are used.

All 22 example sentences with nonlinear

Antonyms of nonlinear

Forms of nonlinear

alternative formnon-linear

Origin of nonlinear

From non- + linear.

Words formed from nonlinear

Phrases with nonlinear

Questions about nonlinear

What does nonlinear mean?
Nonlinear means of a set of points, not lying on a straight line.
What is nonlinear in Hindi?
Nonlinear in Hindi is अरैखिक (araikhik), अरेखीय (arekhīya). See Nonlinear meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is nonlinear?
Nonlinear is an adjective.

Words near nonlinear in the dictionary

  1. nonlimitative
  2. nonlimited
  3. nonlimiting
  4. nonlimphoid
  5. nonlineal
  6. nonlinear
  7. nonlinear editing
  8. nonlinear editor
  9. nonlinear editors
  10. nonlinearities
  11. nonlinearity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nonlinear (page history and authors); nonlinear (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nonlinear (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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