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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parallel \Par"al*lel\, a. [F. parall[`e]le, L. parallelus, fr. Gr. ?; para` beside + ? of one another, fr. ? other, akin to L. alius. See Alien .] (Geom.) Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes. ...
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In geometry , parallel lines are lines in a plane which do not meet; that is, two lines in a plane that do not intersect or touch each other at any point are said to be parallel. By extension, a line and a plane, or two planes, in three-dimensional Euclidean ...
Usage examples of parallel.
But nearly all these authors treat chiefly of parallel perspective, which they do with clearness and simplicity, and also mathematically, as shown in the short treatise in Latin by Christian Wolff, but they scarcely touch upon the more difficult problems of angular and oblique perspective.
Note that he frequently puts the point of sight quite at the side of his canvas, as at S, which gives almost the effect of angular perspective whilst it preserves the flatness and simplicity of parallel or horizontal perspective.
There are many parallels between the bacteria that cause anthrax and botulism: Both form spores and come naturally from the soil.
Theory permits its information to be available in that universewhich would become parallel to thisand the information would provide for the development of the anthropic principle.
A portion of an L-shaped cluster west of this row, and a small row near it parallel to the main building, form a rude approximation to the inclosed court arrangement.
He let them sail through the gate with their bodies parallel to its surface so that they arrived in External Hall perpendicular to the floor, where he easily brought them to a standing stop.
Other lithographic placards contained in two parallel columns the decree of deposition drawn up by the Right at the Mairie of the Tenth Arrondissement, and the decree of outlawry voted by the Left.
That canceled a huge part of the debt we were running up, and in parallel with that we divested some other assets to holding companies and reassigned share ownership of the core company to Amethi residents.
New York City, was a mile from Azul Island, and running parallel to it.
He pointed to a bloodied indentation running parallel to the severed ends.
Suffice it to say that Brewster, quite by accident, had not only discovered time travel, but travel to parallel realities as well.
They moved parallel to the brushy area, then veered into it on what appeared to be an animal trail.
Each of these spherical computers was linked to its four neighbors, north-east-southwest, by a bundle of flexible pushrods running down a flexible, evacuated buckytube, so that the page as a whole constituted a parallel computer made up of about a billion separate processors.
Ignoring the construction boss, Ross ran his hands over the floor, almost immediately discovering a hairline crack running parallel to the bulldozer tread.
This reminds us of the Didache and has its parallel even in the first homily of Aphraates.