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collinear

[kuh-lin-ee-er, koh-] / kəˈlɪn i ər, koʊ- /


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For more than 100 years, physicists generally divided collinear magnets into two fundamental categories: ferromagnets and antiferromagnets.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The 2026 prize recognizes the theoretical and experimental advances that established altermagnetism as a new fundamental form of collinear magnetic order.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The value of the determinate is 0, so the points are collinear.

From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020

Segmentally duplicated genes were identified in collinear segments, which contain at least two collinear gene pairs that were not separated by more than two non-collinear genes.

From Nature ● May 8, 2018

If A, B, C are three distinct collinear points, the common part of the segments BCA and CAB is contained in the supplementary segment ABC.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various


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