📖 Definitions of "Bilinear"
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A bilinear function.
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(of a function in two variables) Linear (preserving linear combinations) in each variable.
"The function f(x,y)=xy is bilinear, because f(ax+bu,y)=af(x,y)+bf(u,y) and f(x,ay+bv)=af(x,y)+bf(x,v) for all values."
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Of or pertaining to a Möbius transformation (type of conformal map representable as the ratio of two linear functions).
"bilinear isotropic hardening"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| linearnoun | Having the form of a line; straight or roughly straight; following a direct course. |
| additive | (mathematics) Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added. |
| resamplingnoun | (statistics) Any technique or instance of generating a new sample from an existing dataset. |
| multilinearnoun | (mathematics, of a function etc) That is linear in each variable separately. |
| sesquilinearnoun | (mathematics) (of a map of a complex vector space) Linear in one coordinate and conjugate linear in the other |
| dual | Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components. |
| linear algebraic | of, or relating to linear algebra |
| semilinearnoun | (mathematics) Describing equations involving both linear and nonlinear objects |
| polylinearnoun | (mathematics) Involving many linear functions |
| crosslinear | (mathematics) Describing a linear function formed from two others |
| symplectic | (mathematics, multilinear algebra, of a bilinear form) That is alternating and nondegenerate. |
| loglinearnoun | Alternative form of log-linear. [(mathematics) Being or relating to a mathematical model that takes the form of a function whose logarithm is a linear combination of the parameters of the model, making it possible to apply (possibly multivariate) linear regression.] |
| bivariablenoun | (mathematics) A binomial variable |
| bivariant | (mathematics) Having two independent variables. |
| bivariate | (mathematics) Having or involving exactly two variables. |
| log-linear | (mathematics) Being or relating to a mathematical model that takes the form of a function whose logarithm is a linear combination of the parameters of the model, making it possible to apply (possibly multivariate) linear regression. |
| piecewise linear | (mathematics) Equal to a sum of finitely many linear functions, each defined on a convex polytope: said of functions between vector spaces |
| piecewise-linear | Alternative spelling of piecewise linear. [(mathematics) Equal to a sum of finitely many linear functions, each defined on a convex polytope: said of functions between vector spaces] |
| alternatingnoun | That alternates. |
| linearly dependent | (algebra, of a set of vectors or ring elements) Having a nontrivial linear combination which is zero. |
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