Synonyms for nonlinear
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1. nonlinearadjective

   Antonyms:
   linear

2. nonlinearadjective

   Antonyms:
   linear

3. nonlinearadjective

   Antonyms:
   linear

4. nonlinearadjective

   Antonyms:
   linear

5. nonlinearadjective

   Antonyms:
   linear

6. nonlinearadjective

   a film with a nonlinear plot

   Antonyms:
   linear

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1. nonlinearadjective

   designating or involving an equation whose terms are not of the first degree

   Antonyms:
   bilinear, additive, linear

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1. List of paraphrases for "nonlinear":

   non-linear, linear, nonlinearity

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How to use nonlinear in a sentence?

1. Greg Schmidt:

   My dad invited Rudy Kalman to give a lecture at Ames, and when he did, Dad had an epiphany, rudy Kalman had written a paper about a theoretical' linear' solution to estimating a vehicle's location and speed. The problem was that this was a fundamentally' nonlinear' problem ; that's like the difference in complexity between floating down a lazy river and going over a waterfall, where your motion becomes chaotic and unpredictable. My dad then developed the equations for how to solve this nonlinear problem -- a major extension of Kalman's work.

2. Neil Gershenfeld:

   For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork.

3. Field Museum senior research scientist:

   There’s more than one way to make magenta with iridescence, the parent species each have their own way of making magenta, which is, I think, why you can have this nonlinear or surprising outcome when you mix together those two recipes for producing a feather color.

4. Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics":

   Equation (1.2-9) is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...