Plane vs Parallel - What's the difference?
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Plane is a related term of parallel. As adverbs the difference between plane and parallel is that plane is ( label) particularly, especially, certainly while parallel is with a parallel relationship. As nouns the difference between plane and parallel is that plane is ( label) the thing, the point, the interesting thing, the main interest in something, unusualness, speciality while parallel is one of a set of parallel lines. As an adjective parallel is equally distant from one another at all points. As a verb parallel is to construct or place something parallel to something else.
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plane English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . The word was introduced in the seventeenth century to distinguish the geometrical senses from the other senses of plain.
Adjective
(er)
Of a surface: flat or level.
Noun
( en noun)
A level or flat surface.
(geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
A level of existence or development. (eg'', ''astral plane )
A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
(computing, Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.
(anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
Hyponyms
* (mathematics) real plane, complex plane
* (anatomy) coronal plane, frontal plane, sagittal plane, transverse plane
Derived terms
*
Related terms
* plain
* planar
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl), from
Noun
( en noun)
(countable) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
See also
* rhykenologist
Verb
(plan)
To smooth (wood) with a plane.
Etymology 3
Abbreviated from aeroplane .
Noun
( en noun)
An airplane; an aeroplane.
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Derived terms
* floatplane
* planeside
* planespotter/plane spotter/plane-spotter
* plane spotting
* seaplane
Verb
(plan)
(nautical) To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water.
To glide or soar.
Etymology 4
From (etyl) plane, from (etyl) platanus, from (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
(senseid)(countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus .
(Northern UK) A sycamore.
Derived terms
* (l)
Anagrams
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parallel Adjective
( -)
Equally distant from one another at all points.
- The horizontal lines on my notebook paper are parallel .
* Hakluyt
- revolutions parallel to the equinoctial
Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
- The railway line runs parallel to the road.
- The two railway lines are parallel .
* Addison
- When honour runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished.
(hyperbolic geometry) said of a pair of lines:'' that they either do not intersect or they coincide[ ]Jos Leys — ''The hyperbolic chamber (paragraph 8)
(computing) Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time
- a parallel algorithm
Antonyms
* perpendicular, skew, serial
Adverb
( en adverb)
With a parallel relationship.
- The road runs parallel with the canal.
Related terms
* (l)
Noun
( en noun)
One of a set of parallel lines.
* Alexander Pope
- Who made the spider parallels design, / Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line?
Direction conformable to that of another line.
* Garth
- lines that from their parallel decline
A line of latitude.
- The 31st parallel passes through the center of my town.
An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
Something identical or similar in essential respects.
* Alexander Pope
- None but thyself can be thy parallel .
A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.
- Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope
(military) 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.
(printing) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines, used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.
Antonyms
* perpendicular, skew (?)
Verb
To construct or place something parallel to something else.
* Sir Thomas Browne
- The needle doth parallel and place itself upon the true meridian.
Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
To compare or liken something to something else.
To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
* Shakespeare
- His life is parallelled / Even with the stroke and line of his great justice.
To equal; to match; to correspond to.
- (Shakespeare)
To produce or adduce as a parallel.
* Shakespeare
- My young remembrance cannot parallel / A fellow to it.
- (John Locke)
Derived terms
* embarrassingly parallel
* forty-ninth parallel
* parallel algorithm
* parallel circuit
* parallel computing
* parallelism
* parallelogram
* parallel universe
* unparalleled
See also
* sequential
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