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The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view.

Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes. Revolutions . . . parallel to the equinoctial. Hakluyt.

Two or more metals coined without any attempt by the government to regulate their values.

A sulcus parallel to, but some distance below, the horizontal limb of the fissure of Sylvius.

A transformer connected in parallel.

A vise with jaws so guided as to remain parallel.

Capable of being paralleled, or equaled. [R.] Bp. Hall.

The quality or state of being parallel.

Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism. The antithetic or parallelistic form of Hebrew poetry is entirely lost. Milman.

To render parallel. [R.]

Matchless. [R.]

In a parallel manner; with parallelism. [R.] Dr. H. More.

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. Parallelogram of velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc. (Mech.), a parallelog…

Of or pertaining to a parallelogram; parallelogrammic.

Having the properties of a parallelogram. [R.]

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.

A parallelopiped. Hutton.

Containing paralogism; illogical. "Paralogical doubt." Sir T. Browne.

A reasoning which is false in point of form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formulæ; a formal fallacy, or pseudo- syllogism, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises.

To reason falsely; to draw conclusions not warranted by the premises. [R.]