linear response in a sentence

Moreover, the very notion of a " life-extension factor " that could apply across taxa presumes a linear response rarely seen in biology ."
High-resistance photoresistors typically have a less pronounced memory effect, are less sensitive to temperature, and have a more linear response, but are also relatively slow.
Strictly speaking stirring is a non-linear effect, because in linear response theory ( LRT ) an AC driving induces an AC current with the same frequency.
One disadvantage of this design is the difficulty in achieving a linear response, as pressure varies approximately inversely ( not linearly ) with volume in a gas.
"However, a straightforward linear response to the death of Arafat, involved in controversy, conflict and the struggle for national identity as he had been, was unlikely ."

Residential-grade windows after 1950 and commercial windows after maybe 1970 use long springs that give a moderately linear response, or cheap coiled springs that are less satisfactory.
She is developing robust black-box methods aiming to describe complicated multi-configurational wave functions in a single-reference formalism, such as coupled-cluster and equation-of-motion ( or linear response ) approaches.
The second mechanism is a " Jakobshavn effect ", coined by Terry Hughes, where a small imbalance of forces caused by some perturbation can cause a substantial non-linear response.
He also developed a "'linear response theory based on coupled cluster formalism ( CCLRT ) "', which is similar in scope to the SAC-CI and done independently of it.
Approximately x ( t ) is a weighted sum of the previous values of h ( t'), with the weights given by the linear response function \ chi ( t-t'):

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