Later, he determines that genes lie in a linear order on chromosomes and that their positions can be mapped.
'I don't write a book in a linear order: I write whichever bit I feel like doing.
But the quirky installation of the show seems intended to compensate for its predictability by questioning both modernism's linear order and America's supposed dominance of postwar art.
The three stories are not told in linear order, but in a circular, swirling pattern that suggests a mandala or a Mayan calendar.
It is nigh on impossible to rank them in a simple linear order, since strengths and weaknesses come in bundles, not as a single order of merit.
Democrats said that because Palm Beach County listed the candidates on two pages, instead of one, the ballot violated the provision that the candidates must be listed under the heading, in linear order.
But the crux of their legal strategy was the physical layout of the printed ballot in Palm Beach, which they claimed was "clearly illegal" because it did not list the presidential candidates in linear order.
A second part to the study involved 384 people who were presented with the same items of food, but in a hierarchical linear order.
As originally conceived, the model contained five elements an information source, a transmitter, a channel of transmission, a receiver, and a destination all arranged in linear order.
Suppose that finitely many physical objects display a linear order.
A linear order is complete, asymmetric, and transitive.
