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1749 Philos. Trans. 1748 (Royal Soc.) 45 390 Another Oversight, in this Plan [of Short-Hand], is the Neglect of Beauty and Linearity.

1837 J. Macculloch Proofs Attrib. God III. xlvii. 284 The Palmetto is beautiful in its radiation, a Grass in its simple linearity.

1891 Athenæum 17 Oct. 515/2 Backslopes and upright strokes are practically discarded, linearity is well preserved.

1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era xvi. 245 Wagner wrote a Prelude..in the ‘linearity’ of which he seemed to overstep the stylistic limits of his own time.

1955 G. C. Homans & D. M. Schneider Marriage, Authority & Final Causes 20 Almost all the eastern Asian societies in which he finds mother's brother's daughter marriage preferred are organised in patrilineages. He concerns himself with linearity, [etc.].

1958 Times 5 Dec. 8/6 Ectomorphy describes the linearity of the build.

1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media xviii. 172 The linearity precision and uniformity of the arrangement of movable types.

1904 Biometrika 3 99 The proportionality of stress and strain is only true within narrow limits, yet the early investigators extrapolated from this linearity all across the mysteries of set, yield~point, and stricture, up to rupture!

1943 Electronic Engin. 16 55/1 The insertion of a valve amplifier between the time base and the cathode-ray tube often involves some sacrifice in linearity.

1946 Nature 7 Sept. 330/2 Linearity is also important in the optical pick-up from the record, in the sense that the illumination of the photo-electric cell must be strictly proportional to the width of the white part of the illuminated area of the record.

1962 J. H. Simpson & R. S. Richards Physical Princ. Junction Transistors xii. 269 Because the gain is high and the linearity fair, negative feedback may be used to exchange gain for linearity.