exact parallel

collocation in English

meaningsofexactandparallel

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exact
adjective
uk
/ɪɡˈzækt/
us
/ɪɡˈzækt/
in great detail, or complete, correct, or true in ...
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parallel
noun
uk
/ˈpær.ə.lel/
us
/ˈper.ə.lel/
something very similar to something else, or a similarity between ...
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(Definition ofexactandparallelfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexact parallel

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This is anexactparallelto the continuum described earlier between granular (time-oriented) synthesis and spectral (frequency-oriented) synthesis.
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That is why the new rule in the proposal is anexactparallelto existing rules applicable to food for human beings.
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There is a substantial area of common ground, but it is not anexactparallel.
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I think that that is anexactparallel.
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It is difficult to get anexactparallel.
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There cannot be anyexactparallelwith the present situation.
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We have produced an almostexactparallelwith what the other nationalised industries have.
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The commission works from the basic scale rates and it has discretion over and above that so there is a fairlyexactparallelhere.
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We have anexactparallelbetween that and what could happen with our great railway stations for which that fate is predicted.
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That is a legitimate although not anexactparallelwith what we are doing in some of the colonial areas.
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That is theexactparallelof our economic position today.
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This is anexactparallel; just as the subsidy started with boats under 140 ft.
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In those circumstances, there is anexactparallelwith companies.
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The dead rents are theexactparallelto the taxation or rating of land value.
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It is not anexactparallel—football is one thing and war is another—but surely war gratuities are not subject to tax in this way?
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That is anexactparallelof what happened last week.
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I do not accept what she has said about spreading, that there is anexactparallelhere with the cases which she gave.
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It is not possible to find anexactparallel.
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That is anexactparallelto what we see happening to the pickets on our television screens.
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There is anexactparallelbetween the two, but he fails to recognise that.
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