Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Nearly or not quite parallel.

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  • adjective Almost parallel, but diverging or converging slightly

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Examples

  • The upper canines tend to diverge or be subparallel, but they may be weakly convergent.

    The many babirusa species: laissez-faire lumping under fire again Darren Naish 2006

  • It now seems that nearly all of the characters proposed initially to distinguish Tupuxuara from other pterodactyloid pterosaurs are problematic in not being unique to the genus, but in fact Tupuxuara is clearly diagnosable, being unique in having a sort of deep premaxillary crest in which the dorsal margin extends subparallel to the dorsal margin of the nasoantorbital fenestra (Martill & Naish 2006, p. 931).

    Those sexy tupuxuarids Darren Naish 2006

  • Smoothly convex on one side, but with a series of subparallel ribs on the other, it was tentatively identified by David Cooper as part of the apex of the neural spine.

    ‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part IV Darren Naish 2006

  • Smoothly convex on one side, but with a series of subparallel ribs on the other, it was tentatively identified by David Cooper as part of the apex of the neural spine.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • The upper canines tend to diverge or be subparallel, but they may be weakly convergent.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • It now seems that nearly all of the characters proposed initially to distinguish Tupuxuara from other pterodactyloid pterosaurs are problematic in not being unique to the genus, but in fact Tupuxuara is clearly diagnosable, being unique in having a sort of deep premaxillary crest in which the dorsal margin extends subparallel to the dorsal margin of the nasoantorbital fenestra (Martill & Naish 2006, p. 931).

    Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • These form subparallel belts trending north-east and south-west from the seacoast between Cullen and Portsoy southwards by Keith and Dufftown to the head waters of the Avon beyond Tomintoul.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • The property covers silicified and potassic altered sediments and a quartz-feldspar porphyry intrusive cut by a number of subparallel epithermal polymetallic veins.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • Additional sample results presented in the table were collected along strike to approximately 125m to the west and 35m across strike to the north, from subparallel, thin, possibly interconnecting, rusty shear zones, several of which exhibit thin veins or intermittent lenses of quartz at the core of the structures.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • The new exploration program proposed for the second year and accepted by Goldcorp includes compilation work and geophysical surveying that are already underway, and diamond drilling which will focus on the three subparallel, roughly east-west trending volcano-sedimentary gold-bearing corridors.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

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