Definition of parallel

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Parallel (v. t.) Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like..

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Collimate :: Collimate (v. t.) To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light..
Nerved :: Nerved (a.) Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins..
Drumlin :: Drumlin (n.) A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion..
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..
Railway :: Railway (n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure..
Fastigiated :: Fastigiated (a.) Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed..
Parallel :: Parallel (n.) Direction conformable to that of another line,.
Vert :: Vert (n.) The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right..
Plane-parallel :: Plane-parallel (a.) Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass..
Parallelogrammatic :: Parallelogrammatic (a.) Of or pertaining to a parallelogram; parallelogrammic.
Antoecians :: Antoecians (n. pl) Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator..
Diallel :: Diallel (a.) Meeting and intersecting, as lines; not parallel; -- opposed to parallel..
Rhombohedron :: Rhombohedron (n.) A solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.
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..
Bond :: Bond (n.) The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break jo
Grating :: Grating (n.) A system of close equidistant and parallel lines lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction; -- called also diffraction grating..
Pattern :: Pattern (v. t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel..
Longitudinal :: Longitudinal (n.) A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
Imparalleled :: Imparalleled (a.) Unparalleled.
Offset :: Offset (n.) An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside..
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