parallel

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But the parallel is almost poerfect: these are, after all, the exact Chinese Communist techniques that were reverse engineered from the SERE program.

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  1. adjective Being an equal distance apart everywhere: dancers in two parallel rows. See Usage Note at absolute.
  2. adjective Mathematics Of, relating to, or designating two or more straight coplanar lines that do not intersect.
  3. adjective Mathematics Of, relating to, or designating two or more planes that do not intersect.
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  • The problem may be length: it is a short novel, but much too long for the vignette recounted, with late-Hemingway sententiousness, to a young boy by an old man who, decades earlier as a young boy himself (a parallel which is stapled frequently into the telling), had participated in a romantic tragedy. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#213
  • Another parallel is the worldwide nature of the decline. —  LA IMC
  • So the national media is running with the parallel, which is ludicrous. —  Freep.com - RSS
  • JP: One thing that bothers me about the South Africa parallel is the centrality that is placed on BDS in the South African case. —  Upping the Anti - A Journal of Theory and Action
  • But if the trial is tainted by what Nakazaki described as a parallel case, one running in Peruvian media, Fujimori, 70, will likely be convicted for up to 30 years, he said. —  Living in Peru : News
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parallel:   parallels ·  paralleling ·  paralleled
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  1. Latin parallēlus, from Greek parallēlos : para-, beside; see para-1 + allēlōn, of one another (from allos, other; see al-1 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Old French parallele, French parallele = Spanish paralelo = Portuguese parallelo = Italian parallelo, paralello, from Latin parallelus, parallelos, from Greek παράλληλος, beside one another, from παρά, beside, + ἀλλήλων, genitive, etc. (found only in oblique cases of dual and plural), one another, a reduplicated form, from ἄλλος, another, + ἄλλος, another.
  2. from parallel, a.
 

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