Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to parallax.
1 more example
With what meditations did Bloom accompany his demonstration to his companion of various constellation? Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: […] of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, thre[e]score and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 17: Ithaca]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 651
Origin
- New Latinparallacticus
- Englishparallactic
From New Latin parallacticus, from Ancient Greek παραλλακτικός (parallaktikós).
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Catalan paral·làctic
- paral·làcticpertaining to parallax
French parallactique
- parallactiquepertaining to parallax
Greek παραλλακτικός
- παραλλακτικός (parallaktikós)pertaining to parallax
Italian parallattico
- parallatticopertaining to parallax
Polish paralaktyczny
- paralaktycznypertaining to parallax
Spanish paraláctico
- paralácticopertaining to parallax
Cite this entry
parallactic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parallactic
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