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Definition of "linearize" [linearize]

  • To put or project in linear form. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "linearize" in a sentence
  • "You probably still live in a linear world where significant changes need significant causes and non significant causes produce no significant changes and that is a common view in the computer modelling community because it all boils down to linearize everything due to the fact that a computer can only add numbers ."
  • "If you recall, I noted a few essays back that one way to make a non-linear model more tractable is to linearize it."
  • "Yes, integration across larger time scales hourly-annual may effectively linearize what is really a fundamentally nonlinear response."
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