the instrument held with its plane roughly parallel to the equinoctial or celestial equato
2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
Upon interaction with ss- nucleic acid (NA) targets (deoxyribooligonucleotides (ODNs) or ribooligonucleotides), they form very stable anti-parallel and parallel duplexes [3 ], and the melting temperatures of the antiparallel duplexes are 10 to 15°C higher than those of the parallel duplexes.
Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
When honour runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished.
The spelling has been modernized.
1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 449:
All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles.
1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 255:
In those days she had admired his pluralistic openness of mind, and struggled, in her kitchen, towards a parallel eclecticism, learning to cook the dosas and uttapams of South India as well as the soft meatballs of Kashmir.
(science fiction, of realities, dimensions, timelines, etc.) Coexisting but normally not interacting with the regular reality.
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Something identical or similar in essential respects.
2013, Alexandra R. Harrington, “The Crime of Aggression and Threats to the Future”, in Sébastien Jodoin, Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, editors, Sustainable Development, International Criminal Justice, and Treaty Implementation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 161–162:
It has also been suggested that environmental crimes might include the proposed crime of ‘ecocide’ or ‘geocide’, with proponents of this view attempting to draw parallels between destructive acts towards the environment and those against the qualifying groups for genocide. […] [M]any who advocate for the creation of either ecocide or geocide principally argue that the best place to try such crimes is through an apparatus created in a separate and environment-oriented treaty.
A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.
Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope
(military) 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.
(printing) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines, used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.
Archaic covered bridges lingered fearsomely out of the past in pockets of the hills, and the half-abandoned railway track paralleling the river seemed to exhale a nebulously visible air of desolation.
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66:
Racing on, we parallel the M5 doing 95mph, according to the app on my smartphone.
Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
1984 April 14, Reginald Shepherd, “White Men's Black Men”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
Although its spokesmen do not hesitate to parallel their oppression to that of blacks, the gay male community has chosen to ignore the voices of black gay men.
2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 119:
These scholars argue that gender and sexual identity are like nature and the environment; they parallel the queer/performance connection to the environmental/performance connection. I consider, instead, how all these categories actively interact and overlap.
To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
Macb[eth]. ’Twas a rough Night. / Lenox. My young remembrance cannot paralell / A fellow to it.
1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Importunitie and Opportunity of the Place, Conference, Discourse, Singing, Dauncing, Musicke, Amorous Tales, Obiects, Kissing, Familiaritie, Tokens, Presents, Bribes, Promises, Protestations, Teares, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy,[…], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 2, member 2, subsection 4, page 587:
Who cannot parallel theſe ſtories out of his experience?
Die Linien meines Schreibpapiers laufen exakt parallel. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Die eine Bahnschiene verläuft auch in der Kurve stets parallel zur anderen. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
serving the same purpose, leading to the same result
Die Autobahn verläuft parallel zur Eisenbahn aber in ganz unterschiedlichen Biegungen und Kurven. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Die Eheleute hatten nichts verabredet, so haben sie parallel (zueinander) eingekauft. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
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