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- 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.
- Unconformity - n. - Want of parallelism between strata in contact.
- Uncoformability - n. - Want of parallelism between one series of strata and another, especially when due to a disturbance of the position of the earlier strata before the latter were deposited.
- Conformability - n. - The parallelism of two sets of strata which are in contact.
- Orientation - n. - The tendency of a revolving body, when suspended in a certain way, to bring the axis of rotation into parallelism with the earth's axis.
- Correlation - n. - Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases.
- Obliquity - n. - The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator.