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  • English Word Paralactic Definition Designating an acid called paralactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic.
  • English Word Paralbumin Definition A proteidlike body found in the fluid from ovarian cysts and elsewhere. It is generally associated with a substance related to, if not identical with, glycogen.
  • English Word Paraldehyde Definition A polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance.
  • English Word Paraleipsis Definition A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice."
  • English Word Paralepsis Definition See Paraleipsis.
  • English Word Paralian Definition A dweller by the sea.
  • English Word Paralipomenon Definition A title given in the Douay Bible to the Books of Chronicles.
  • English Word Paralipsis Definition See Paraleipsis.
  • English Word Parallactic Definition Alt. of Parallactical
  • English Word Parallactical Definition Of or pertaining to a parallax.
  • English Word Parallax Definition The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view.
  • English Word Parallax Definition The apparent difference in position of a body (as the sun, or a star) as seen from some point on the earth's surface, and as seen from some other conventional point, as the earth's center or the sun.
  • English Word Parallel Definition Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.
  • English Word Parallel Definition Having the same direction or tendency; running side by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; -- used with to and with.
  • English Word Parallel Definition Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage.
  • English Word Parallel Definition A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc.
  • English Word Parallel Definition Direction conformable to that of another line,
  • English Word Parallel Definition Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity.
  • English Word Parallel Definition A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope.
  • English Word Parallel Definition Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart.
  • English Word Parallel Definition 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.
  • English Word Parallel Definition 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.
  • English Word Parallel Definition 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.
  • English Word Parallel Definition 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.
  • English Word Parallel Definition Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like.
  • English Word Parallel Definition To equal; to match; to correspond to.
  • English Word Parallel Definition To produce or adduce as a parallel.
  • English Word Parallel Definition To be parallel; to correspond; to be like.
  • English Word Parallelable Definition Capable of being paralleled, or equaled.
  • English Word Paralleled Definition of Parallel