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| cabstand |
a place, usu. designated by a municipality, where taxicabs line up and wait to be hired. |
| collimate |
to line up or make parallel (rays of light). [1/2 definitions] |
| I formation |
in football, an offensive formation in which the halfback and fullback line up directly behind the quarterback. |
| line of scrimmage |
an imaginary line on a football field, parallel to the goal line, where the ball rests and at which the two teams line up at the start of each play. |
| metaphase |
in biology, the stage in mitosis and meiosis in which the duplicated chromosomes of the dividing cell line up along the equatorial plane of the spindle. |
| parabola |
a plane curve such as that formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane that is parallel to a straight line up the side of the cone, such curve resembling the path of an object that is thrown forward in the air and falls to earth. |
| syncline |
a formation of rock layers that incline upward from the median line or axis. (Cf. anticline.) |
| uprise |
to move, slope, or incline upward; ascend. [1/6 definitions] |
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