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sublinear

sublinear adjective: placed below a line of text.

Adjective

sublinear (not comparable)

  1. Placed below a line of text.
    Synonyms:
    infralinear
  2. Almost but not quite linear in shape.
  3. Growing or changing asymptotically more slowly than a linear one.
    • The sublinear dependence of blue straggler number on core mass is interesting.2009 January 15, Christian Knigge, Nathan Leigh, Alison Sills, “A binary origin for ‘blue stragglers’ in globular clusters”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7227, →DOI

Synonyms of sublinear

Origin of sublinear

From sub- + linear.

Words formed from sublinear

Questions about sublinear

What does sublinear mean?
Sublinear means placed below a line of text.
What part of speech is sublinear?
Sublinear is an adjective.

Words near sublinear in the dictionary

  1. sublimizing
  2. sublimnic
  3. subline
  4. sublineage
  5. sublineages
  6. sublinear
  7. sublinearities
  8. sublinearity
  9. sublinearly
  10. sublineate
  11. sublineated

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