parallel development

collocation in English

meaningsofparallelanddevelopment

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parallel
adjective
uk
/ˈpær.ə.lel/
us
/ˈper.ə.lel/
If two or more lines, streets, etc. are parallel, the distance between them is the same all along ...
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development
noun
uk
/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/
us
/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/
the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes ...
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(Definition ofparallelanddevelopmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, there appears to have been aparalleldevelopmentearly on in both regional varieties regarding the incipient emergence of the to -ing pattern.
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Inparalleldevelopment, the interface issues are moved towards resolution with those issues surrounding the final target environment.
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Interpreting morphosyntactic resemblances in terms of direct input,paralleldevelopment, and linguistic contact.
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It is expected, therefore, that the new inverse-matrix perturbation theory also will find a suitableparalleldevelopmentin other economic analyses.
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Moreover, oocytes and follicle cells may be controlled independently by factors that act on both of them to achieve aparalleldevelopment.
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Aparalleldevelopmentfor a distorted economy yields the same expressions for accounting prices and similar interpretations.
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One of its principal goals was to allowparalleldevelopmentof classes and provide a composition mechanism to obtain a final system.
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And once again, it is interesting to look at theparalleldevelopmentof você.
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Theparalleldevelopmentof service and research networks in urgent health care has not been interdependent, but has been mutually supportive.
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The book has been conceived as theparalleldevelopmentof two discourses, which being obviously interrelated, exhibit, at the same time, some independent status.
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In biology, reticulations mean either homoplasy (that is, independentparalleldevelopment), or 'mixing', whether by recombination or gene transfer.
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As the reliability of traditional modes of surveillance is increasingly called into question, there is aparalleldevelopmentof new approaches.
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These changes tend toparalleldevelopmentof the central nervous system throughout the first decade of life.
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It is to be noted that aparalleldevelopmentseems to be occurring in relation to agreement with the associate.
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However, this impression of a linearparalleldevelopmentis an oversimplification.
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Their popularity is due in great part to theirparalleldevelopmentand modification of multiple solutions in diverse areas of the solution space, discouraging convergence to a suboptimal solution.
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To conclude, the last 25 years have seen aparalleldevelopmentin the expansion of archaeological heritage and postprocessual theory, both stressing local and national frameworks for interpretation.
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Aparalleldevelopmentis the form much 'architectural' research is now taking.
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