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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost linear" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to describe a relationship or trend that is close to being linear but not perfectly so, often in mathematics, science, or data analysis.
Example: "The graph of the data points shows an almost linear trend, indicating a strong correlation between the variables."
Alternatives: "nearly linear" or "approximately linear".
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"It's almost linear".
The increase is almost linear.
The temperature dependence is very low and almost linear.
Capacitance change is almost linear with the specific surface area.
At the second stage, all curves are almost linear.
All the shrinking processes show almost linear shrinking behavior.
Both the theoretical analysis and real traffic experiments demonstrate that PRIM delivers almost linear speedup.
In addition, the correlation between the two tests was almost linear.
The increase of photovoltaic cells operating temperature causes an almost linear reduction of their performance.
The force elongation curves were almost linear for all of the three groups.
The activation energy for total reaction increases substantially with temperature and exhibits almost linear temperature dependence.
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