collinear

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MCScanX65 was used to identify collinear duplicated gene blocks between species or genomes, including Tu3-to-Ta3B, Tu3-to-Bd, Tu3-to-Os, Tu3-to-Sb, Ta3B-to-Bd, Ta3B-to-Os and Ta3B-to-Sb.

From Nature • May 8, 2018

If they’re small, you can cultivate the soil, skimming below the surface with a collinear hoe or scuffle hoe to expose weed roots.

From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2017

Nonzero vectors u and v are called collinear if there exists a nonzero scalar α such that v = αu.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Show that u and v are collinear if and only if u × v = 0.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

The origins of these four plane co-ordinate systems may be collinear with the axis of the optical system; and the corresponding axes may be parallel.

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