linear chain

collocation in English

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linear
adjective
uk
/ˈlɪn.i.ər/us
/ˈlɪn.i.ɚ/
consisting of relating to lines ...
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chain
noun
uk
/tʃeɪn/us
/tʃeɪn/
a series of things of the same type connected in a line, or a series of people standing in ...
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(Definition oflinearandchainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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First, a cell is updated at most once, from a self-reference to a pointer to either another cell in alinearchainor a structure.
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Alinearchainlist records the number of successful rules during reasoning process and stores them in a knowledge unit.
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We can now define alinearchainof co-cancellable actions.
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In this article we introduce time delay into the model explicitly, thereby negating the need for the three auxiliarylinearchainequations and their associated artificial parameters.
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That is to say, ideas and concepts do not simply beget their offspring in alinearchainof descent, which is the way intellectual history has sometimes been written.
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Alinearchainof amino acid residues is called a polypeptide.
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With the exception of one, the volcanoes form a nearlylinearchainof circular volcanic cones.
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This means that the call tree is alinearchainof nested calls.
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They can be joined together in one longlinearchain, or they may be branched.
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The three craters form alinearchainalong the equator.
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For germanium only 5linearchainbinary compounds are known as gases or volatile liquids.
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The ring then opens giving the beginning of the polymer: alinearchaindouble bonded to the metal with a terminal double bond as well.
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The room-temperature (alpha) form has the samelinearchainstructure as bismuth pentafluoride.
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Newly made proteins usually must fold from alinearchainof amino acids into a three-dimensional form.
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The semi-infinitelinearchainmodel is also useful in this case.
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It has a terminal aldehyde group rather than a ketone in itslinearchain, and so is considered part of the aldose family of monosaccharides.
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The initial connectors are gradually replaced, first by means of linear chaining through coordination and ellipsis, and eventually by subordination.
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Two glycerol units are linked together by two strains which consist of two phytanes linked together to form alinearchainof 32 carbon atoms (40 carbons including methyl sidechains).
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