nonlinear

Adjective

• designating or involving an equation whose terms are not of the first degree

Adj

• Not lying on a straight line.
• Whose atoms do not lie in a straight line.
• Having a product of independent variables, or a variable with an exponent not equal to one.
• Whose output is not directly proportional to its input.
• Erratic and unpredictable; tending to jump back and forth.

Examples

• a film with a nonlinear plot

Antonyms

linear