linearize, v.
(ˈlɪnɪəraɪz)
Also linearise.
[f. linear a. + -ize.]
trans. To represent in a linear form; to transform into a linear figure; to make linear.
| 1895 Daily News 2 May 5/1 The Cretans used a symbol of a double axe-head, bipennis. They linearised this into an X with the top and bottom closed. 1895 Q. Rev. July 213 When the Northmen used the Tau for the hammer of Thor, they merely linearised a picture of a real hammer. 1957 L. Fox Numerical Solution Two-Point Boundary Probl. iii. 48 The only practical method of general application seems to be to ‘linearize’ the equations and solve them by an iterative process. 1969 Physics Bull. Nov. 463/1 Analysis is made difficult by the nonlinearity of the governing equations; any attempt to introduce approximations which linearize them seems to result in a loss of the basic features of the flow. 1969 Canad. Jrnl. Ling. XV. 25 It was speculated..that the reason that languages had embedding transformations..was to ‘linearize’ or spread out in linear form the deeply embedded concoctions which the human mind can produce. 1970 J. Earl Tuners & Amplifiers iv. 93 This can..reduce the distortion and linearise the power response. 1973 Newnes Colour Television Servicing Manual I. ii. 57/1 One half of the double triode is concerned essentially with linearising the field scan by means of negative feedback. |
Hence ˌlineariˈzation, the action or process of linearizing; ˈlinearized ppl. a.; ˈlinearizer, that which linearizes, esp. a device which linearizes the response of a measuring instrument or other mechanism.
| 1896 A. J. Evans in Academy 13 June 494/1 Characters of a type representing the linearisation of originally pictographic characters. 1938 Proc. Physico-Math. Soc. Japan XX. 319 A method of linearization of wave equations for the electron. 1956 E. H. Hutten Lang. Mod. Physics iii. 94 Linearisation is a familiar trick in physics. 1962 W. B. Thompson Introd. Plasma Physics ii. 10 Then we obtain the linearized, approximate equations. 1968 Chomsky & Halle Sound Pattern Eng. 391 What we have so far defined is simply a linearized version of rules of the form we have been discussing all along. 1973 Physics Bull. Oct. 606/1 Since the output from the digital ratemeter is nonlinear with load, it is necessary to use a short integrating time (about 0·1 s) in the ratemeter to obtain a true load signal after linearization. 1973 Physics Bull. Dec. 745/1 The system is precalibrated for particular applications and has a built-in linearizer. |