The three articulations are in nearly parallel planes, allowing the astragalus to rotate vertically.
On small patches of skin they run nearly parallel to one another.
A magnetic field is usually described as a distribution of nearly parallel nonintersecting field lines.
In the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the fracture zones are nearly parallel, trending almost east west.
Land use is largely determined by the nearly parallel systems of mountains and plains.
Limited accuracy can become an issue when, for example, two streets run nearly parallel to each other.
Once writer, as a child, wedged his leg between the trunk and the nearly parallel branch in a tree.
The colours usually appear as bands nearly parallel to the cloud edges or as a mosaic pattern".
Unlike the harpsichord and spinet, the virginal's single set of strings runs nearly parallel to the keyboard.
Rip currents form at long coasts that are approached by wave trains oriented parallel or nearly parallel to the shoreline.
Cigarette-market growth has levelled off & begun to move nearly parallel to the growth curve for the adult population, despite the 7% increase in sales since 1970.
