The third item in the Description section of the documentation page to which you link describes what the colon, : operator does when its inputs are non-scalar.
"x = j:i:k creates a regularly-spaced vector x using i as the increment between elements. The vector elements are roughly equal to [j,j+i,j+2*i,...,j+m*i] where m = fix((k-j)/i). However, if i is not an integer, then floating point arithmetic plays a role in determining whether colon includes the endpoint k in the vector, since k might not be exactly equal to j+m*i. If you specify nonscalar arrays, then MATLAB interprets j:i:k as j(1):i(1):k(1)." [Emphasis added.]
