The phrase "as a linear process" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sequence of events or steps that follow a straight, direct path without deviation.
Example: "The project was completed as a linear process, moving from planning to execution without any interruptions."
Alternatives: "in a sequential manner" or "as a step-by-step process".
I may know a certain leap from one chord to another, from a verse to a chorus and back again, but not the entire song as a linear process.
A Hebrew Bible theology of history is based on the understanding of history as a linear process, as directed to a goal (i.e., the Kingdom of God) and as qualified by the characteristic of singularity.
This model describes population dynamics as a linear process.
One is to study innovation as a linear process.
Thus, innovation was still understood as a linear process, as in the first-generation models yet, the difference was that market needs were identified first, followed by development, manufacturing and sales.
Assimilation theories have been the forerunners in integration studies defining integration as a linear process in which immigrants were supposed to adapt themselves to the mainstream society (e.g. Warner & Srole, 1945).
Given the value of these contributions, modern pharmaceutical firms would indeed be ill advised to think of drug discovery as merely a linear process.
Policy makers, implementers and other stakeholders are not naïve and seldom perceive implementation as just a linear process that starts off with finding the 'right' technology and putting it in place so that the intended users use it as planned with the expected outcomes being achieved.
The kinetics of this decline suggests that it is due to collateral photobleaching (a linear process) as well as bleaching of a background soluble pool (an exponential process).
This is not always a linear process, as often new machines are developed in collaboration with growers.
Hughes et al. [ 17] described how Ausubel's learning model can be viewed as a cyclical rather than a linear process where the trying it out, getting feedback and applying it stages are a continuing cycle.
