Opposite vs Antiparallel - What's the difference?
opposite | antiparallel |
Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
Facing in the other direction.
Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
* Dryden
* John Locke
Something opposite or contrary to another.
An opponent.
An antonym.
(mathematics) An additive inverse.
In an opposite position.
Facing, or across from.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
In a complementary role to.
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(mathematics) of vectors, parallel but of opposite direction
(biochemistry) describing the orientations of the two strands of DNA
(biochemistry) describing two beta strands comprising a protein's secondary structure that are aligned and hydrogen bonded but the vector describing the amino- and carboxy-terminal ends of each strand are oriented 180° relative to one another.
(geometry) A line that forms equal angles with two other lines, but in opposite directions.
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In mathematics terms the difference between opposite and antiparallel
is that opposite is an additive inverse while antiparallel is of vectors, parallel but of opposite direction.As adjectives the difference between opposite and antiparallel
is that opposite is located directly across from something else, or from each other while antiparallel is of vectors, parallel but of opposite direction.As nouns the difference between opposite and antiparallel
is that opposite is something opposite or contrary to another while antiparallel is a line that forms equal angles with two other lines, but in opposite directions.As an adverb opposite
is in an opposite position.As a preposition opposite
is facing, or across from.opposite
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Adjective
(-)- She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.
- They were moving in opposite directions.
- He has a lot of success with the opposite sex.
- Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem.
- Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite , significations.
Derived terms
* opposite sexNoun
(en noun)- "Up" is the opposite of "down".
Derived terms
* opposites attractAdverb
(-)- I was on my seat and she stood opposite .