Definition of parallel

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Parallel (n.) One of the imaginary circles on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, marking the latitude; also, the corresponding line on a globe or map..

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Pinacoid :: Pinacoid (n.) A plane parallel to two of the crystalline axes.
Prism :: Prism (n.) A form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis. See Form, n., 13..
Rhombohedron :: Rhombohedron (n.) A solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.
Unparalleled :: Unparalleled (a.) Having no parallel, or equal; unequaled; unmatched..
Grating :: Grating (n.) A partition, covering, or frame of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or convent..
Obliquity :: Obliquity (n.) The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator..
Parallelistic :: Parallelistic (a.) Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism.
Parallelopipedon :: Parallelopipedon (n.) A parallelopiped.
Cone-in-cone :: Cone-in-cone (a.) Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together; -- said of a kind of structure sometimes observed in sedimentary rocks..
Clinopinacoid :: Clinopinacoid (n.) The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.
Diallel :: Diallel (a.) Meeting and intersecting, as lines; not parallel; -- opposed to parallel..
Sap :: Sap (n.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc..
Gemel :: Gemel (n.) One of the barrulets placed parallel and closed to each other. Cf. Bars gemel, under Gemel, a..
Shear :: Shear (v. i.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact..
Antiparallel :: Antiparallel (a.) Running in a contrary direction.
Parallel :: Parallel (n.) Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart..
Rhomb :: Rhomb (n.) An equilateral parallelogram, or quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides parallel. The angles may be unequal, two being obtuse and two acute, as in the cut, or the angles may be equal, in which case it is usually called a square..
Parallel :: Parallel (n.) One of the imaginary circles on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, marking the latitude; also, the corresponding line on a globe or map..
Harmony :: Harmony (n.) A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the Gospels..
Penciled :: Penciled (a.) Marked with parallel or radiating lines.
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