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Longitudinal :: Longitudinal (n.) A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.

Penciled :: Penciled (a.) Marked with parallel or radiating lines.

Schiller :: Schiller (n.) The peculiar bronzelike luster observed in certain minerals, as hypersthene, schiller spar, etc. It is due to the presence of minute inclusions in parallel position, and is sometimes of secondary origin..

Clinopinacoid :: Clinopinacoid (n.) The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.

Cross :: Cross (a.) Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.

Prism :: Prism (n.) A form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis. See Form, n., 13..

Prism :: Prism (n.) A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc..

Parallelistic :: Parallelistic (a.) Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism.

Prism :: Prism (n.) A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms..

Unconformity :: Unconformity (n.) Want of parallelism between strata in contact.

Pumice :: Pumice (n.) A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone..

Rectangle :: Rectangle (n.) A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.

Orientation :: Orientation (n.) The tendency of a revolving body, when suspended in a certain way, to bring the axis of rotation into parallelism with the earth's axis..

Plane-parallel :: Plane-parallel (a.) Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass..

Parallel :: Parallel (n.) 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..

Grid :: Grid (n.) A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron..

Verriculate :: Verriculate (a.) Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches..

Tropic :: Tropic (n.) One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23? 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic..

Griff :: Griff (n.) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.

Length :: Length (a.) The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the length of a rope or line..

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