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What does nonlinearity mean?

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  1. (uncountable) The state of being nonlinear.
  2. (countable) A deviation from linearity.
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Fredrickson then suggests that this counts as general evidence of nonlinearity in the effects of positivity.
In this regime, the nonlinear response is augmented by the optical Stark effect, a nonlinearity that is fast because it does not involve the generation of real carriers.
This nonlinearity and the mechanisms controlling illness and pain representations must therefore be understood from a transdisciplinary approach.
A similar nonlinearity arises in objects illuminated by light from the Sun or other thermal light source.
The degree of nonlinearity depends on the size of the parameter a and need not, in principle, be large.
A study using probenecid demonstrated that the nonlinearity in blood levels is in fact due to a saturation of the active transport pathway in the kidney.

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