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PRONUNCIATION OF PARALLEL RULER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARALLEL RULER

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Parallel ruler is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PARALLEL RULER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

parallel ruler

Parallel rulers

Parallel rulers are a drafting instrument used by navigators to draw parallel lines on charts. The tool consists of two straight edges joined by two arms which allow them to move closer or further away while always remaining parallel to each other.

Definition of parallel ruler in the English dictionary

The definition of parallel ruler in the dictionary is a drawing instrument in which two parallel edges are connected so that they remain parallel, although the distance between them can be varied.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARALLEL RULER

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parallel bars
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Parallel Olympics
parallel port
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parallel turn
parallel-park
paralleleled
parallelels
parallelepiped
parallelepipeda
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parallelism
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WORDS THAT END LIKE PARALLEL RULER

befouler
biofouler
caterwauler
coruler
Euler
hauler
inhauler
mauler
outhauler
overruler
puler
ridiculer
ruler
scheduler
von Euler

Synonyms and antonyms of parallel ruler in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «parallel ruler» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PARALLEL RULER

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The translations of parallel ruler from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «parallel ruler» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

平行尺
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

regla paralela
570 millions of speakers

English

parallel ruler
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

समानांतर शासक
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

حاكم الموازي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

параллельной линейкой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

régua paralela
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সমান্তরাল শাসক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

règle parallèle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penguasa selari
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

parallel-Lineal
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

平行定規
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

병렬 통치자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Panguasa paralel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cai trị song song
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இணை ஆட்சியாளர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

समांतर शासक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Paralel cetvel
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

righello parallelo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

władca równoległe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

паралельної лінійкою
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

conducător paralel
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παράλληλο χάρακα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

parallel regeerder
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

parallell linjal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

parallell linjal
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of parallel ruler

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PARALLEL RULER»

The term «parallel ruler» is used very little and occupies the 165.591 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PARALLEL RULER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about parallel ruler

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARALLEL RULER»

Discover the use of parallel ruler in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to parallel ruler and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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History Pockets, Explorers of North America
Now that you have made the parallel ruler and dividers, you get a chance to practice using them. Parallel Ruler STEPS TO FOLLOW 1. Draw a straight line with a standard ruler. 2. Hold the two shorter sides of the parallel ruler, and straighten ...
Mike Graf, Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Kathleen McFarren, 2003
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A complete treatise on practical land-surveying
The following general rule for the parallel ruler will be found of considerable service to learners, and may be easily committed to memory. GENERAL RULE. 1. Lay the ruler from the first to the third angle, move it parallel to the second angle,  ...
Anthony Nesbit, William Burness, 1870
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Nesbit's Practical Land-Surveying. Eleventh edition. (Field ...
The following general rule for the parallel ruler will be found of considerable service to lvamers, and may be easily committed to memory. GENERAL RULE 1. Lay the ruler from the first to the third angle, move it parallel to the second angle, and ...
Anthony NESBIT, William BURNESS, 1870
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Comprehensive treatise on land surveying, comprising the ...
Many ingenious improvements have been made, and to give an account of each would be unnecessary ; let it suffice to describe first the simple parallel ruler. Plate VIII. (Fig. 2.) Represents a parallel ruler, acting on the principal of the vertical ...
‎1812
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The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopædia: Comprehending ...
PARALLEL RULER. An instrument for drawing lines parallel to each other. The simplest parallel ruler is the common cylindrical ruler of the counting-house, represented at Fig. 1 ; it serves very well for common purposes, where great exactness ...
Luke Hebert, 1846
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Origami 5: Fifth International Meeting of Origami Science, ...
The parallel ruler is an instrument discussed by Handest [Handest 56]. The parallel ruler constructs a line though a point P which is also parallel to a given line L, i.e. it constructs an asymptotic line (see Figure 14). In the hyperbolic plane there ...
Patsy Wang-Iverson, Robert J. Lang, Mark YIM, 2011
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A complete treatise on practical land-surveying, in all its ...
The following general Rule for the Parallel Ruler will be found of considerable service to learners ; and may be easily committed to memory. GENERAL RULE. 1 . Lay the ruler from the first to the third angle ; move it parallel to the second angle  ...
Anthony Nesbit, 1847
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A complete Treatise on practical Land-Surveying, etc. With ...
The following general Rule for the Parallel Ruler will be found of considerable service to learners; and may be casin committed to memory. GENERAL RULE. 1. LAY the ruler from the first to the third angle; move it parallel to the second angle;  ...
Anthony NESBIT, Thomas BAKER (Civil Engineer.), 1855
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A Rudimentary Treatise on Land and Engineering Surveying, ...
In this manner the work of casting by the parallel ruler may be conducted to any number of angles. Great care must be taken, during the operation, to prevent the ruler slipping, as such an accident will derange the whole of the work, if not ...
Thomas BAKER (Civil Engineer), 1865
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Elementary Treatise on Land and Engineering Surveying: With ...
In this manner the work of casting by the parallel ruler may be conducted to any number of angles. Great care must be ' taken, during the operation, to prevent the ruler slipping, as such an accident will derange the whole of the work, it' not ...
Thomas Baker, 1868

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARALLEL RULER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term parallel ruler is used in the context of the following news items.
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Artist renders complex architectural portraits of nature by hand
Using pencils, paint and ye old tools like a rolling parallel ruler, plastic triangles and a compass, Araujo constructs a field of regulating lines to ... «Treehugger, Feb 14»
2
Chesapeake Marine Training Institute Launches Online Ship Store
... messenger bags and can coozies; Weems & Plath dividers, parallel ruler and plotter, protractor triangle and course plotters; and Chesapeake ... «PR Web, Sep 13»

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