Adjective

(en adjective)

Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.

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(mathematics) Of geometrical figures including triangles, squares, ellipses, arcs and more complex figures, having the same shape but possibly different size, rotational orientation, and position; in particular, having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional; such that one can be had from the other using a sequence of operations of rotation, translation and scaling.

Adjective

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parallel, along the same vein, side by side.

Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.

* Wordsworth

Yet the attempt may give / Collateral interest to this homely tale.

Being aside from the main subject; tangential, subordinate, ancillary.

Although not a direct cause, the border skirmish was certainly a collateral incitement for the war.

* Macaulay

That he [Atterbury] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, is true.

(family ) of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.

''Uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces are collateral relatives.

* 1885 , , The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , volume 5,

The pure blood all descends from five collateral lines called Al-Khamsah (the Cinque).

relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security

expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan

Coming or directed along the side.

collateral pressure

* Shakespeare

collateral light

Acting in an indirect way.

* Shakespeare

If by direct or by collateral hand / They find us touched, we will our kingdom give / To you in satisfaction.