superlinear
superlinear adjective: above a line.
Adjective
superlinear (comparative more superlinear, superlative most superlinear)
- Above a line.
- Describing a function (or rate of growth, etc) that eventually grows faster than any linear one.
- […] in their study of Mono (a F/OSS implementation of Microsoft's .NET services, libraries and interfaces), their measurements indicate superlinear growth rate in the code size and the number of code updates that are committed […]2006, Nazim H. Madhavji, Juan Fernandez-Ramil, Dewayne Perry, Software Evolution and Feedback: Theory and Practice, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 187
Forms of superlinear
| comparative | more superlinear |
|---|---|
| superlative | most superlinear |
Origin of superlinear
From super- + linear.
Words formed from superlinear
Questions about superlinear
- What does superlinear mean?
- Superlinear means above a line.
- What part of speech is superlinear?
- Superlinear is an adjective.
Words near superlinear in the dictionary
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