What's the difference between parallel and unequalable?
Parallel
Definition:
(a.) Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.
(a.) Having the same direction or tendency; running side by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; -- used with to and with.
(a.) Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage.
(n.) A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc.
(n.) Direction conformable to that of another line,
(n.) Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity.
(n.) A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope.
(n.) Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart.
(n.) One of the imaginary circles on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, marking the latitude; also, the corresponding line on a globe or map.
(n.) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.
(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.
(v. t.) To place or set so as to be parallel; to place so as to be parallel to, or to conform in direction with, something else.
(v. t.) Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like.
(v. t.) To equal; to match; to correspond to.
(v. t.) To produce or adduce as a parallel.
(v. i.) To be parallel; to correspond; to be like.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
(2) The time-course and dose-response for this modification of pp60c-src paralleled PDGF-induced increases in phosphorylation of pp36, a major cellular substrate for several tyrosine-specific protein kinases.
(3) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(4) There was no correlation between serum LH and chronological or bone age in this age group, which suggests that the correlation found is not due to age-related parallel phenomena.
(5) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(6) Stimulation of parallel fibers or iontophoresis of acetylcholine excited P cells.
(7) Label was found widely distributed among all the organs except the nervous system and its rate of disappearance from the tissues paralleled its disappearance from the circulation.
(8) The bundles may lie parallel to the plasma membrane and to the long axis of the cell.
(9) Alterations in DNA synthesis induced by a single dose of cyclophosphamide in normal and tumorous tissues in vivo paralleled in many respects the changes seen when the more time-consuming techniques of the LI or granulocyte colony formation were employed.
(10) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
(11) The influences of the inhibitor(s) for both tumours and in both culture systems were parallel.
(12) Parallel studies in vivo were carried out to determine the contribution of the phosphatidylserine decarboxylase pathway, relative to pathways utilizing ethanolamine directly, to the synthesis of brain ethanolamine glycerophospholipids.
(13) Plasma renin activities (PRA) and aldosterone concentrations increased in parallel over a wide range of plasma volume deficits produced in unanesthetized rats by extravascular administration of polyethylene glycol (PEG) solution.
(14) Combined study of lungs of 85 foetuses and newborns of various gestational age and 8 newborns dying during the first month of life showed the lung surfactant (LS) system to develop in parallel with formation of respiratory parts and lung capillary network.
(15) Ordering of these filaments into a parallel array is the basis of birefringence in the A region, and loss of birefringence is therefore a measure of decreased order.
(16) Comparing the regression lines of HR-QT and HR-QS2 separately for both groups, we found that both intervals decreased in parallel and the mean QT remained shorter than QS2 in both groups during exercise.
(17) Parallel changes in free T4 and the free T4 index indicate adequacy of the index in representing pineal-induced changes in free T4.
(18) In the course of its history, psychiatry has grown richer parallel to the development of its spatiotemporal system of the reference.
(19) Furthermore, the changes in both interstitial fluid and testicular venous blood levels of testosterone do not always parallel those in peripheral venous blood, suggesting that changes in testicular blood flow and peripheral clearance rates of testosterone may also be important in the control of circulating testosterone concentrations.
(20) On the basis of these data, the computer, upon the basis of a program specially developed for this purpose, automatically calculates the corresponding amount of negative-points, which parallels the severity of the joint changes, i.e.
Unequalable
Definition:
(a.) Not capable of being equaled or paralleled.
Example Sentences:
(1) Especially in the early phase of AMI it was demonstrated that FBP--as a non-invasive technique--gives high information quality which is unequalled by other comparable methods.
(2) This technique yields absolute flow values of unequalled accuracy and requires virtually no calibration; however, it is not suitable for recording rapid flow transients.
(3) The average price of a property in London has leapt by more than a quarter over the past year, a rate of growth unequalled since the summer of 1987, according to the latest figures from the UK's largest building society.
(4) His tenure at the highest echelons of government was unequalled in Europe.
(5) Over the tempestuous decade of his 1970s glory years, Bowie illuminated popular culture in a way unequalled since, and which is unimaginable in the X Factor era.
(6) 8.16am BST Jonathan Haynes (@JonathanHaynes) House prices increasing at a rate of growth unequalled since the summer of 1987.
(7) This paper describes a transverse approach to the knee which gives unequalled access to the joint for extensive synovectomies, extensive surgical debridement, installation of total knee prostheses, or reduction of supracondylar fracture of the femur involving the articular surfaces.
(8) The BBC's director of Vision, Jana Bennett, paid tribute to Tranter, who became BBC controller of drama commissioning in 2000, describing her as an "unequalled force in British drama".
(9) Albion avoided relegation by a single place last time and with two points from their first three games they need their unequalled array of new signings to settle in quickly if it is not to be another winter of discontent at the Hawthorns.
(10) The presence of an anesthesist having at his disposal all the material and all drugs for anesthesia and reanimation gives the surgeon an unequalled operatory comfort.
(11) At his best that unequalled mobility had made him as secure as a dive-bomber attacking a wagon train.
(12) Echocardiography affords the physician a detailed assessment of mitral valve integrity unequalled by any other non-invasive test.
(13) Epidemics of yellow fever in mid-19th century America caused, in the port cities of the South, devastation and death almost unequalled in this country's history.
(14) While interstitial sources, removable or permanent, present a personnel exposure problem, the delivery and deposition of ionizing radiation in this way has unequalled simplicity, versatility, and availability.
(15) During her lifetime, gay men admired and identified with her courage and endurance, and these past 40 years they've elevated her to an unequalled iconic status.
(16) "Steve Jobs was unequalled in his ability to keep being cool.
(17) But that, famously, is not what Tony McCoy does, which is why Mountain Tunes discovered he did know what he had to do after all and became part of a legend, the jockey's 4,000th winner, an unequalled feat that few believe will ever be beaten (although he, naturally, is already aiming for win number 5,000).
(18) The comparison between these two data sets suggests that restriction analysis of mtDNA is probably unequalled by other techniques currently available for determining phylogenetic relationships among conspecific organisms.
(19) Three new ophthalmological instruments are described: a rotating contact glass holder for easier control of the three-mirror Goldmann or other diagnostic contact lens which must be rotated on the eye; a suture-tying forceps combined with a sapphire blade, combining the tying and cutting functions in one instrument and a diamond cystotome for anterior capsulectomy with a cutting edge of unequalled sharpness.
(20) Literary London is much the poorer for the loss of its own History Man, and of a voice unequalled for its humanity and wit.