Definition of Subparallel

1. Adjective. Almost parallel, but diverging or converging slightly ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Subparallel

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subparallel

subovate
subovated
subovoid
suboxic
suboxide
suboxides
suboxone
subpage
subpages
subpallium
subpanel
subpanels
subpar
subparagraph
subparagraphs
subparallel (current term)
subparameter
subparameters
subparse
subparsec
subparses
subpart
subpartial
subpartition
subpartitioned
subpartitioning
subpartitions
subparts
subpatellar
subpath

Literary usage of Subparallel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"83 (84) Shell covered with a close reticulum of longitudinally subparallel lines (Fig. 1283^). Abdomen without processes. ..."

2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1915)
"... subparallel, nearer to each other than to outer margin or radial sector; 5 to 7 in fore wing, 2 to 4 in hind wings, each much farther than its length ..."

3. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1916)
"8 Slits slender and subparallel to each other 9 8. ... slits of one plate subparallel to those in opposite plate; plates at bottom of a pit ..."

4. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"... plates often contiguous or nearly so; slits long and subparallel ... 8 Slits slender and subparallel to each other g 8. Two tubercles above anal area; ..."

5. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1920)
"... plates often contiguous or nearly so; slits long and subparallel ... 8 Slits slender and subparallel to each other 9 8. Two tubercles above anal area; ..."

6. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"... Slits slender and subparallel to each other „ 8. Two tubercles above anal area; ... slits of one plate subparallel to those ..."

7. Rhynchophora Or Weevils of North Eastern America by Willis Stanley Blatchley, Charles William Leng (1916)
"Elytra scarcely wider than thorax, the sides subparallel to middle, ... Thorax almost as long as wide, sides subparallel from base to middle, then broadly ..."

8. The Isomorphism and Thermal Properties of the Feldspars by Arthur Louis Day, Eugene Thomas Allen, Joseph Paxson Iddings, George Ferdinand Becker (1905)
"In most cases the outline is indefinite and the larger plates consist of multitudes of parallel and subparallel plates, whose outline in the plane of ..."

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