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Definition of Colinear
1. lying in the same straight line [adj]
Medical Definition of Colinear
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Colinear
Literary usage of Colinear
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Civil Engineer's Pocket-book by John Cresson Trautwine (1907)
"colinear forces are called similar when they are of like sense, and opposite ...
For equilibrium, under the action of colinear forces, if is, of course, ..."
2. Technical Mechanics, Statics and Dynamics by Edward Rose Maurer (1917)
"Since P3 is the equilibrant of P1 and P2, the resultant of P1 and P2 is equal
and opposite to and colinear with P3. It remains now to ascertain whether a ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1868)
"... points of any of the series be colinear and such as to render the inscription
of closed 4'gons real, we may omit such points altogether from the series. ..."
4. A History of the Theory of Elasticity and of the Strength of Materials: From by Isaac Todhunter (1893)
"It relates to the problem of the statically indeterminate reactions which arise
when a body rests on more than two colinear or more than three non-colinear ..."
5. Food Subsidies in Egypt: Their Impact on Foreign Exchange and Trade by Grant MacDonald Scobie (1983)
"The presumption is that the prices actually paid by Egypt are highly colinear
with these series. This matter will be addressed later. ..."
6. A Primer of Quaternions by Arthur Stafford Hathaway (1896)
"For when mod <£ = 0, then <f>a, <f>ft, $y are coplanar or colinear vectors, and
we have a relation Ifia + m<f>ft + n<f>y = 0 ; ie, la + mft + ny is a null ..."
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