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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.
- Parallel - n. - A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines (thus, ) used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.
- Parallel - v. t. - To place or set so as to be parallel; to place so as to be parallel to, or to conform in direction with, something else.
- Parallel - v. t. - Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like.
- Parallel - v. t. - To equal; to match; to correspond to.
- Parallel - v. t. - To produce or adduce as a parallel.
- Parallel - v. i. - To be parallel; to correspond; to be like.
- Parallel - a. - Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.
- Parallel - a. - Having the same direction or tendency; running side by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; -- used with to and with.
- Parallel - a. - Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage.
- Parallel - n. - A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc.
- Parallel - n. - Direction conformable to that of another line,
- Parallel - n. - Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity.
- Parallel - n. - A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope.
- Parallel - n. - Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart.
- Parallel - n. - One of the imaginary circles on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, marking the latitude; also, the corresponding line on a globe or map.
- Parallelable - a. - Capable of being paralleled, or equaled.
- Paralleled - imp. & p. p. - of Parallel
- Paralleling - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Parallel
- Parallelism - n. - The quality or state of being parallel.
- Parallelism - n. - Resemblance; correspondence; similarity.
- Parallelism - n. - Similarity of construction or meaning of clauses placed side by side, especially clauses expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, as is common in Hebrew poetry; e. g.: --//At her feet he bowed, he fell:/Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. Judg. v. 27.
- Parallelistic - a. - Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism.
- Parallelize - v. t. - To render parallel.
- Parallelless - a. - Matchless.
- 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.
- Hemstitch - v. t. - To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.
- Subcontrary - a. - Having, or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel.
- Echelon - n. - An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance.
- 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.
- Shear - v. t. - An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
- 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.
- Zone - n. - The portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes; the portion of a surface of revolution included between two planes perpendicular to the axis.
- 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.
- Parallel - n. - A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc.
- Climate - v. i. - One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.
- 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.
- Siegework - n. - A temporary fort or parallel where siege guns are mounted.
- Latus rectum - - The line drawn through a focus of a conic section parallel to the directrix and terminated both ways by the curve. It is the parameter of the principal axis. See Focus, and Parameter.
- Unconformable - a. - Not conformable; not lying in a parallel position; as, unconformable strata.
- Nerved - a. - Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins.
- 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.
- Perioecians - n. pl. - Those who live on the same parallel of latitude but on opposite meridians, so that it is noon in one place when it is midnight in the other. Compare Antoeci.
- 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.
- Gemel - n. - One of the barrulets placed parallel and closed to each other. Cf. Bars gemel, under Gemel, a.
- Equatorially - adv. - So as to have motion or direction parallel to the equator.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gules - n. - The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red.
- Brachypinacoid - n. - A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.
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- H3600 כִּיר - 3600 כִּיר - כִּיר - - kîyr - keer - a form for כּוּר (only in the dual); a cooking range (consisting of two parallel stones, across which the boiler is set); ranges for pots. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4915 מֹשֶׁל - 4915 מֹשֶׁל - מֹשֶׁל - - môshel - mo'-shel - (1) from מָשַׁל; (2) from מָשַׁל; empire; a parallel; dominion, like. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H7298 רַהַט - 7298 רַהַט - רַהַט - - rahaṭ - rah'-hat - from an unused root apparently meaning to hollow out; a channel or watering-box; by resemblance a ringlet of hair (as forming parallel lines); gallery, gutter, trough. - Noun Masculine - heb