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She cited a ruling allowing what she characterized as a similar plan at Calpine.

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  1. adjective Related in appearance or nature; alike though not identical.
  2. adjective Mathematics Having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional. Used of geometric figures: similar triangles.

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  • It is conjecturally similar, a heavy rectangle which quite overweighs the church; plain, with its stiff pilasters and two stories of rounded windows; without grace or proper proportion, but pleasing by the unblemished severity of its lines. —  Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1
  • This gave them the alternate sections of land within five miles on either side and United States Bonds to the amount of sixteen thousand dollars per mile,--similar to the aid extended the Union Pacific Railroad Company by the Government The Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad Company had been incorporated by the legislature of the state of Kansas in 1855, and was organized in January, 1857, but nothing was done of any consequence under its state Charter. —  The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History
  • The constitutions recently formed in Kentucky, Louisiana, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, he said, had such a provision--similar, in fact, to that in the Federal Constitution--and, although this method was open to objection, the committee was unable to devise a better system Aside from James Tallmadge, who thought the Legislature should have nothing to do with the patronage of government, this report called out little opposition, so far as it provided for the election of state officers by the Legislature, military officers by the militia, and the appointment of higher military and judicial officers by the governor. —  A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
  • The god of war, had he witnessed this strange sight that morning, must have recalled a similar sight a hundred years and more prior to that, at Moscow, when the army of the great Napoleon was scattered to the winds by the cavalry and infantry of the Russian hordes.
  • One of the characters upon this stone is a circle within a circle--similar character found by Mr. Holder is a Mayan manuscript. —  The Book of the Damned
 

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  1. French similaire, from Latin similis, like; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French (and F.) similaire =Spanish Portuguese similar =Italian similare, from Middle Latin *similaris, extended from Latin similis, like; akin to simul, together, Gr.α+μα, together, and English same: see same. From the L. similis are also ult. English simile, similitude, simulate, simultaneous, semble, semble, assemble, dissemble, resemble, semblance, semblant, assimilate, dissimilar, dissimulation., etc.
 

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