{"id":10046,"date":"2023-12-26T19:51:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T19:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/uncategorized\/hip-glossary-linear\/"},"modified":"2023-12-26T19:51:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T19:51:05","slug":"hip-glossary-linear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/hip-glossary\/hip-glossary-linear\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip Glossary: Linear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linear:<\/p>\n<div><strong>Lin&quot;e*ar<\/strong> (?), a. [L. linearis, linearius , fr. linea line: cf. F. lin\u00e9aire. See 3d Line.] <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><strong><br \/>1.<\/strong> Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><strong><br \/>2.<\/strong> (Bot.) Like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf. Linear differential (Math.), an equation which is of the first degree, when the expression which is equated to zero is regarded as a function of the dependent variable and its differential coefficients. &#8212; Linear equation (Math.), an equation of the first degree between two variables; &#8212; so called because every such equation may be considered as representing a right line.&lt;&#8211; = straight line! &#8211;&gt; &#8212; Linear measure, the measurement of length. &#8212; Linear numbers (Math.), such numbers as have relation to length only: such is a number which represents one side of a plane figure. If the plane figure is square, the linear figure is called a <em>root<em>. &#8212; Linear problem (Geom.), a problem which may be solved geometrically by the use of right lines alone. &#8212; Linear transformation (Alg.), a change of variables where each variable is replaced by a function of the first degree in the new variable. <\/p>\n<p>Source:websters1813dictionary<\/em><\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linear: Lin&quot;e*ar (?), a. [L. linearis, linearius , fr. linea line: cf. F. lin\u00e9aire. See 3d Line.] 1. Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal. 2. (Bot.) Like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf. Linear differential (Math.), an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hip-glossary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}