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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.]

False reasoning; paralogism.