It cannot be recorded or deciphered by any linear process, such as magnetic tape running past a playback head.

This process should be a holistic process, not a linear process.

While there are general trends in the medieval evolution of the sword, it was by no means a linear process.

It's a very linear, narrative process of composing.

Lists are common data structures as they naturally reflect linear computational processes.

There is no linear informational process involved.

In either case, the once linear process is converted into a circular one.

Career development is no longer viewed as a linear process.

There was no linear process either of differentiation or secularization.

To understand how the distortion comes about, let us consider an ideal linear process from sampling to display.