collinear

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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

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

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

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

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

The WGD in the Eucalyptus lineage relative to Vitis is clearly revealed by the 2:1 pattern in which two different Eucalyptus regions are typically collinear with a single region in Vitis.

From Nature • Jun. 10, 2014

The collinear centres are the three sets of one external and two internal centres, and the three external centres.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various