Definition of antiparallel in English:
antiparallel
adjectiveˌantɪˈparəlɛlˌantī-
Physics Parallel but moving or oriented in opposite directions.
Example sentencesExamples
- Also no difference in the packing of the hydrophobic core between the parallel and antiparallel orientations was expected.
- The double-stranded helices are either parallel or antiparallel and exist in a variety of conformations of different lengths and numbers of residues per turn.
- When the field is turned back on, an initially parallel spin will end up antiparallel and vice versa.
- Electrons that have spins in the antiparallel direction are strongly scattered, which results in a high resistance.
- These latter structures can be left- or right-handed, they can be parallel or antiparallel, and they can have a differing number of residues per turn.