Nonparallel, nonintersecting shafts are usually connected by a worm and gear.
At low temperatures, the rare-earth metals holmium (Ho) and erbium (Er) have a nonparallel moment arrangement that gives rise to a substantial spontaneous magnetization.
An accurate comparison of the lengths of two parallel lines AB and CD can be made, whereas if an attempt is made to compare the nonparallel lines A′B′ and C′D′, quite large errors occur.
The shafts that gears connect must be relatively close, but they may have practically any spatial relationship with respect to one another; they may be parallel or nonparallel and intersecting or nonintersecting.
The commonest angle between nonparallel shafts, either intersecting or nonintersecting, is a right angle (90°).
When flat belts are used to connect nonparallel shafts, the pulleys are located in such a way that the belt does not run off the pulleys; in some cases it may be necessary to use additional, or idler, pulleys to guide the belt.
The Hounds — Ms. Maguire and her sister, Emily Robison — recorded nearly all of their self-titled new album there, in a bright, custom-built room with nonparallel walls (to reduce echoes) decorated with strategically sound-absorbent fabric hangings.
