parallel
adjective
extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging.
nonparallel
-
a word derived from
parallel.
Example Sentences
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In two dimensions, it is impossible to generate a vector simultaneously orthogonal to two nonparallel vectors.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
Figure 2.71 The intersection of two nonparallel planes is always a line.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
Because quantifiers like both and either have a disconcerting habit of floating around the sentence, the phrases that come after them may end up nonparallel, and that grates on the ear.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Over and over we hear in voiceover or see in graphic display the “three principles,” which are maddeningly, even defiantly, nonparallel: “respect for the individual, exceeding customers’ expectations, strive for excellence.”
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
Often the earth movements to which the uplift or depression was due involved tilting or folding of the earlier strata, so that the strata are now nonparallel as well as unconformable.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
