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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

4.41 Parallel

Word
Pronunciation
Definition
Related Forms
parallel
/'pɛɹɪlɛl/
Adjective
When a line is parallel to another line, the two lines do not meet and they are the same distance from each other at every point.
Noun
(countable) A similarity between two things.
Verb

  1. Be similar to.
  2. To be the same distant apart from each other at every point.
parallelism
parallelogram

5 comments:

  1. To draw parallel lines, we duplicate an angle that both lines make with a transversal.
    Russian: параллельный

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  2. Two parallel rows of trees grown along a frame curve into an 8-foot-high walk-through arcure

    Japanese;hai kou suru

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  3. parallel
    ['pærəlel]

    adj. 平行的, 相同的, 类似的, 并联的
    adv. 平行地
    n. 平行线(面), 相似物, 对比
    vt. 相比, 相应, 与...平
    The gymnast swung on the parallel bars.

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  4. Like many of Powers's novels, this one involves parallel narratives, although the two stories converge fairly quickly.

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  5. Although there are parallels between searching and indexing, it is important to remember that successful information retrieval does not depend only upon effective exploitation of indexing.
    Spanish:paralelo

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