(art) A form of geometric perspective in which parallel lines are represented as converging in order to give the illusion of depth and distance.

plural of linear combination

plural of linear transformation

(mathematics) Equal to a sum of finitely many linear functions, each defined on a convex polytope: said of functions between vector spaces

A mathematical model of a system based on the use of a linear operator.

plural of linear function

(archaeology, linguistics) A syllabary used to write Mycenaean Greek in the second millennium BC, before the invention of the Greek alphabet.

Alternative spelling of piecewise linear

(mathematics) A linear mapping from a vector space to its field of scalars.

(mathematics, functional analysis) An operator L such that for functions f and g and scalar λ, L (f + g) = L f + L g and L λf = λ L f.