"linear" (a polynomial of degree at most one), as in
first-order approximation and other calculus uses, where it is contrasted with "polynomials of higher degree", or
"without self-reference", as in
first-order logic and other logic uses, where it is contrasted with "allowing some self-reference" (higher-order logic)
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