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Unequaled :: Unequaled (a.) Not equaled; unmatched; unparalleled; unrivaled; exceeding; surpassing; -- in a good or bad sense; as, unequaled excellence; unequaled ingratitude or baseness..

Altitude :: Altitude (n.) The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc..

Parallelopiped :: Parallelopiped (n.) A solid, the faces of which are six parallelograms, the opposite pairs being parallel, and equal to each other; a prism whose base is a parallelogram..

Dispart :: Dispart (n.) A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore; -- called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight..

Trapezoid :: Trapezoid (n.) A plane four-sided figure, having two sides parallel to each other..

Collimate :: Collimate (v. t.) To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light..

Flyer :: Flyer (n.) One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder..

Equatorially :: Equatorially (adv.) So as to have motion or direction parallel to the equator.

Tint :: Tint (n.) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

Parallelogram :: Parallelogram (n.) A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles..

Hodograph :: Hodograph (n.) A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces..

Heddle :: Heddle (n.) One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom..

Parallel :: Parallel (v. t.) Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like..

Cleavage :: Cleavage (n.) Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure..

Zone :: Zone (n.) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.

Unpeered :: Unpeered (a.) Having no peer; unequaled; unparalleled.

Paca :: Paca (n.) A small South American rodent (Coelogenys paca), having blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides; the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig..

Shirr :: Shirr (n.) A series of close parallel runnings which are drawn up so as to make the material between them set full by gatherings; -- called also shirring, and gauging..

Parabola :: Parabola (n.) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus..

Unconformable :: Unconformable (a.) Not conformable; not lying in a parallel position; as, unconformable strata..

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