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Longilateral :: Longilateral (a.) Having long sides especially, having the form of a long parallelogram..

Unconformity :: Unconformity (n.) Want of parallelism between strata in contact.

Paraboloid :: Paraboloid (n.) The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.

Grid :: Grid (n.) A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron..

Zone :: Zone (n.) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.

Octapla :: Octapla (sing.) A portion of the Old Testament prepared by Origen in the 3d century, containing the Hebrew text and seven Greek versions of it, arranged in eight parallel columns..

Rhombohedron :: Rhombohedron (n.) A solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.

Slaty :: Slaty (a.) Resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting; as, a slaty color or texture..

Parallel :: Parallel (v. t.) To equal; to match; to correspond to.

Parallel :: Parallel (n.) A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope..

Paralleled :: Paralleled (imp. & p. p.) of Paralle.

Analogue :: Analogue (n.) A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group..

Shirr :: Shirr (n.) A series of close parallel runnings which are drawn up so as to make the material between them set full by gatherings; -- called also shirring, and gauging..

Rhomboid :: Rhomboid (n.) An oblique-angled parallelogram like a rhomb, but having only the opposite sides equal, the length and with being different..

Altitude :: Altitude (n.) The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc..

Macropinacoid :: Macropinacoid (n.) One of the two planes of an orthorhombic crystal which are parallel to the vertical and longer lateral (macrodiagonal) axes.

Imparalleled :: Imparalleled (a.) Unparalleled.

Herringbone :: Herringbone (a.) Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions..

Heddle :: Heddle (n.) One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom..

Trench :: Trench (v. t.) To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops..

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