Sentence examples for be close to parallel from inspiring English sources
Your arm should be close to parallel to the ground.
Squat down close to the water so that when you throw, your rock will be close to parallel with the surface of the water.
The buccal surfaces were close to parallel with a debonding blade.
Isothermal surface orientation data are presented and are close to parallel for most realizations.
Occasionally, when the radar beam is close to parallel to the geomagnetic field, one or both of these shoulders are enhanced up to 4 5 orders of magnitude above the thermal level (Grydeland et al., 2004); this is referred to as naturally enhanced ion-acoustic lines (NEIAL).
The two cyclopentadienyl rings are close to parallel (the centroid Rh centroid angle is 177.2°) and the rhodium centre is slightly closer to the substituted cyclopentadienyl ring (Rh centroid distances are 1.819 Å and 1.795 Å), an observation attributed to the greater inductive effect of the tert-butyl groups on the substituted ligand.
The net CPh-N vector is close to parallel to the channel axis in the MOF (17° off-parallel viewed down [001], 13° off-parallel viewed down [011], and 11° off-parallel for [010]).
The slopes of the regression line between days to flower and leaf number from the founding accessions and the larger set of 96 accessions were close to parallel (the regression coefficient being 0.97 for founding accessions, 0.88 for the full set of 96 accessions, or 0.93 when the latest flowering accessions are excluded).
Despite that the increase in body size was close to parallel between early maturing males and anadromous males and females in the unrestricted feeding regime, the early maturing males maintained their relative brain size also under unrestricted feeding while both anadromous males and females decreased their relative brain size as compared to the natural level feeding treatment.
While it may seem easier at first to hold the chopsticks near their tips, holding them further back means that they are closer to parallel, which helps to scoop food (like rice) from below.
In turn, the four metal centers form a near-perfect square (Zn-Zn-Zn angles of 90(1)°), thus ensuring that the two ligand strands of each macrocycle are close-to-parallel and orthogonal to those of the other macrocycle.
