superlinear

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Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
substrateder.
Proto-Indo-European *līnom
Proto-Italic *līnom
Latin līnum
Proto-Indo-European *-éyos
Proto-Italic *-ejos
Proto-Italic *-eos
Latin -eus
Latin līneus
Latin līnea
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -āris
Latin līneārisbor.
English linear
English superlinear

    From super- + linear.

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    Adjective

    superlinear (comparative more superlinear, superlative most superlinear)

    1. Above a line.
    2. (especially mathematics) Describing a function (or rate of growth, etc) that eventually grows faster than any linear one.
      • 2006, Nazim H. Madhavji, Juan Fernandez-Ramil, Dewayne Perry, Software Evolution and Feedback: Theory and Practice, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 187:
        […] in their study of Mono (a F/OSS implementation of Microsoft's .NET services, libraries and interfaces), their measurements indicate superlinear growth rate in the code size and the number of code updates that are committed […]

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