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linear 
1  adj A linear process or development is one in which something changes or progresses straight from one stage to another, and has a starting point and an ending point. 
...the linear view of time, with the idea that the past is moving into the present and the present into the future.  
2  adj A linear shape or form consists of straight lines. 
...the sharp, linear designs of the Seventies and Eighties.  
3  adj Linear movement or force occurs in a straight line rather than in a curve. 
non-linear  , nonlinear 
If you describe something as non-linear, you mean that it does not progress or develop smoothly from one stage to the next in a logical way. Instead, it makes sudden changes, or seems to develop in different directions at the same time.  adj 
 (Antonym: linear)  ...a non-linear narrative structure.