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coline

coline noun: the dual of a line.

Noun

coline (plural colines)

  1. The dual of a line.
    • hyperplanes concurrent in a coline1995, Ronald L. Graham, Martin Grötschel, László Lovász, Handbook of Combinatorics: Volume 1, page 831

Forms of coline

pluralcolines

Origin of coline

From co- + line.

Questions about coline

What does coline mean?
Coline means the dual of a line.
What part of speech is coline?
Coline is a noun.
What is the plural of coline?
The plural of coline is colines.

Words near coline in the dictionary

  1. colimiting
  2. colimits
  3. colimycin
  4. colin
  5. Colindale
  6. coline
  7. colinear
  8. colinearities
  9. colinearity
  10. colinearization
  11. colinearizations

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