parallelism
— Noun
– English
~ similarity by virtue of corresponding
parallelogram
— Noun
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~ a quadrilateral whose opposite sides are both parallel and equal in length
parallelopiped
— Noun
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~ a prism whose bases are parallelograms
parallelopipedon
— Noun
– English
~ a prism whose bases are parallelograms
paralogism
— Noun
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~ an unintentionally invalid argument
paralysis agitans
— Noun
– English
~ a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination
paralysis
— Noun
– English
~ loss of the ability to move a body part
paralytic
— Noun
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~ a person suffering from paralysis
paralytic abasia
— Noun
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~ abasia related to paralysis of the leg muscles
paramagnet
— Noun
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~ magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it
paramagnetism
— Noun
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~ materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed
Paramaribo
— Noun
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~ the capital and largest city and major port of Surinam
paramecia
— Noun
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~ any member of the genus Paramecium
paramecium
— Noun
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~ any member of the genus Paramecium
paramedic
— Noun
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~ a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment
paramedical
— Noun
– English
~ a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment
parameter
— Noun
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~ a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves
parameter
— Noun
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~ (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
parameter
— Noun
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~ any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance
parameter
— Noun
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~ a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data