nonlinear system

Noun

Meaning

a system whose performance cannot be described by equations of the first degree

Source: WordNet

Hypernyms

system scheme

Examples

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition. Murray Gell-Mann

Nonlinear signal processing is closely related to nonlinear system identification Billings S.A. "Nonlinear System Identification: NARMAX Methods in the Time, Frequency, and Spatio-Temporal Domains". Source: Internet

Practical considerations The concept of intercept point is based on the assumption of a weakly nonlinear system, meaning that higher-order nonlinear terms are small enough to be negligible. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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