Definitions
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
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Please explain why whether “water vapor is colinear with CO2 forcing over this range of 33C” has any effect on the total downwelling IR.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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Even then, I think that the effect of NH. could be underestimated, as it is essentially colinear with CO2 up to 1998.
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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
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Find the radius of the circle that passes through three (non-colinear) points.
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Here's a safer implementation which will work even if the pt1 to pt2 vector in colinear to the current UCS Z axis.
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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
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Connect these lines head to tail and make them colinear.
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