"linear" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In such a linguistic system, the concept of linear progress of time, geometric shapes, and even conventional methods of description are lost altogether or altered.
- In his hands, the waterways' halting but inexorable linear progress finds not just a description but also an analogy in the frame-by-frame movement of film.
- The idea of linear progress was an important part of Haeckel's recapitulation theory of evolution, which held that the embryological development of an organism repeats its evolutionary history.
- Regarding the first idea, if notions of linear progress are all that most modern jazz musicians are striving for, he's right.
- Beyond that, you can't expect some kind of linear progress; you just appraise the music's premise and see how well the playing has fulfilled it.
- There have been periods of optimism in the past, only for unexpected shocks to undermine what was assumed to be linear progress.
- Varying conceptualizations of historicity emphasize linear progress or the repetition or modulation of past events.
- But linear progress in a single direction is only one pattern of relational development.
- The bloodletting of that conflict had indicted the whole notion of linear progress.
- So the resurrection of genres in installations is a way of leapfrogging backward over the 19th-century obsession with linear progress and evolution.
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