Collinearity
Property of points all lying on a single line / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Colinear" redirects here. For the use in genetics, see synteny. For the use in coalgebra theory, see colinear map. For colinearity in statistics, see multicollinearity.
In geometry, collinearity of a set of points is the property of their lying on a single line.[1] A set of points with this property is said to be collinear (sometimes spelled as colinear[2]). In greater generality, the term has been used for aligned objects, that is, things being "in a line" or "in a row".
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