Definition of parallel

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Parallel (n.) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress..

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Zonate :: Zonate (a.) Divided by parallel planes; as, zonate tetraspores, found in certain red algae..
Length :: Length (a.) The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the length of a rope or line..
Cylinder :: Cylinder (n.) A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular..
Unique :: Unique (n.) A thing without a like; something unequaled or unparalleled.
Paralleled :: Paralleled (imp. & p. p.) of Paralle.
Parallel :: Parallel (n.) Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart..
Rectangle :: Rectangle (n.) A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.
Parallel :: Parallel (n.) A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc..
Hexapla :: Hexapla (sing.) A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century..
Prism :: Prism (n.) A form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis. See Form, n., 13..
Parallelopiped :: Parallelopiped (n.) A solid, the faces of which are six parallelograms, the opposite pairs being parallel, and equal to each other; a prism whose base is a parallelogram..
Contrate :: Contrate (a.) Having cogs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it..
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..
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..
Orthopinacoid :: Orthopinacoid (n.) A name given to the two planes in the monoclinic system which are parallel to the vertical and orthodiagonal axes.
Ordinate :: Ordinate (n.) The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured..
Tint :: Tint (n.) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
Node :: Node (n.) A hole in the gnomon of a dial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc..
Infinity :: Infinity (n.) That part of a line, or of a plane, or of space, which is infinitely distant. In modern geometry, parallel lines or planes are sometimes treated as lines or planes meeting at infinity..
Azure :: Azure (n.) A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines..
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