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Line :: Line (n.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.

Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square..

Pattern :: Pattern (v. t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel..

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..

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..

Longitudinal :: Longitudinal (n.) A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.

Diffraction :: Diffraction (n.) The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars..

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

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..

Peritomous :: Peritomous (a.) Cleaving in more directions than one, parallel to the axis..

Screw :: Screw (n.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis..

Prism :: Prism (n.) A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc..

Parallelistic :: Parallelistic (a.) Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism.

Gnomon :: Gnomon (n.) The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis..

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..

Crosshead :: Crosshead (n.) A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead..

Parallel :: Parallel (v. t.) To produce or adduce as a parallel.

Conformable :: Conformable (a.) Parallel, or nearly so; -- said of strata in contact..

Conformability :: Conformability (n.) The parallelism of two sets of strata which are in contact.

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

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