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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Containing elements that correspond to one another and that are arranged in the same linear sequence.
  • adjective Collinear.

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  • adjective Alternative spelling of collinear.

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Examples

  • Please explain why whether “water vapor is colinear with CO2 forcing over this range of 33C” has any effect on the total downwelling IR.

    More Unthreaded « Climate Audit 2007

  • Willis quoted Lee as, “to assume that greenhouse effect of water vapor is colinear with CO2 forcing over this range of 33C is naive to the point of absurdity.”

    More Unthreaded « Climate Audit 2007

  • A gene can only be called a Hox gene sensu stricto if it has a homeobox sequence, is homologous to other known Hox genes, and is organized in a colinear cluster.

    Jellyfish lack true Hox genes! - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • A gene can only be called a Hox gene sensu stricto if it has a homeobox sequence, is homologous to other known Hox genes, and is organized in a colinear cluster.

    The Panda's Thumb: May 2006 Archives 2006

  • Even then, I think that the effect of NH. could be underestimated, as it is essentially colinear with CO2 up to 1998.

    Letter to NAS « Climate Audit 2006

  • Oddly enough, I had made identical calculations thirty-four years earlier for the colinear Earth-Moon Lagrange points ( "Stationary Orbits", Journal of the British Astronomical Association, December 1947) but I no longer trust my ability to solve quintic equations, even with the help of HAL, Jr., my trusty H/P 91OOA.

    2010 Odyssey Two Clarke, Arthur C. 1982

  • Find the radius of the circle that passes through three (non-colinear) points.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Windows 2010

  • Here's a safer implementation which will work even if the pt1 to pt2 vector in colinear to the current UCS Z axis.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • Whereas, the two orbitals (namely, 2s and 2px) are colinear and overlap end-to-end with one H-atom and one C-atom to produce two sigma bonds

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • Connect these lines head to tail and make them colinear.

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