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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

sublinear en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Latin līneārisbor. English linear English sublinear From sub- + linear.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Placed below a line of text.
  2. (not-comparable) Almost but not quite linear in shape.
  3. (not-comparable, of a function) 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:

Deriveds

sublinearly · sublinearity

Synonyms

infralinear