Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 14
Paraglossa (n.) (Zool.) One of a pair of small appendages of the lingua or labium of certain insects. See Illust. under Hymenoptera.
Paragnath (n.) (Zool.) Same as Paragnathus.
Paragnathous (a.) (Zool.) Having both mandibles of equal length, the tips meeting, as in certain birds.
Paragnathi (n. pl. ) of Paragnathus
Paragnathus (n.) (Zool.) One of the two lobes which form the lower lip, or metastome, of Crustacea.
Paragnathus (n.) (Zool.) One of the small, horny, toothlike jaws of certain annelids.
Paragoge (n.) (Gram.) The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without.
Paragoge (n.) (Med.) Coaptation. [Obs.] -- Dunglison. Paragogic
Paragogic (a.) Alt. of Paragogical
Paragogical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or constituting, a paragoge; added to the end of, or serving to lengthen, a word.
Paragogic letters, In the Semitic languages, letters which are added to the ordinary forms of words, to express additional emphasis, or some change in the sense.
Paragon (v. i.) To be equal; to hold comparison. [R.]
Few or none could . . . paragon with her. -- Shelton.
Paragon (v. t.) 〔詩〕比較(with)；〔古語〕與…競爭 (with)；〔古語〕勝過，強過 To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with. [Obs.] -- Sir P. Sidney.
Paragon (v. t.) To compare with; to equal; to rival. [R.] -- Spenser.
In arms anon to paragon the morn, The morn new rising. -- Glover.
Paragon (v. t.) To serve as a
model for; to surpass. [Obs.]
He hath achieved a maid That paragons description and wild fame. -- Shak.
Paragon (n.) (盡善盡美的)模范[典型]；優秀的人[物]；逸品，殊品；完人；(100克拉以上的)大鉆石；特大珍珠；【印刷】20點鉛字 A companion; a match; an equal. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Paragon (n.) Emulation; rivalry; competition. [Obs.]
Full many feats adventurous Performed, in paragon of proudest men. -- Spenser.
Paragon (n.) A model or pattern; a pattern of excellence or perfection; as, a paragon of beauty or eloquence. -- Udall.
Man, . . . the paragon of animals ! -- Shak.
The riches of sweet Mary's son, Boy-rabbi, Israel's paragon. -- Emerson.
Paragon (n.) (Print.) A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type.
Paragon (n.) An ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept [syn: paragon, idol, perfection, beau ideal].
Paragon (n.) Model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal [syn: ideal, paragon, nonpareil, saint, apotheosis, nonesuch, nonsuch].
Paragon, () Mark Sherman. IEEE Software (Nov 1991).
Paragon, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 663
Housing Units (2000): 275
Land area (2000): 0.251058 sq. miles (0.650237 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000):0.251058 sq. miles (0.650237 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57870
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 39.394901 N, 86.561797 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 46166
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Paragonite (n.) (Min.) A kind of mica related to muscovite, but containing soda instead of potash. It is characteristic of the paragonite schist of the Alps.
Paragonite (n.) A colorless or pale brown mica with sodium.
Paragram (n.) A pun.
Puns, which he calls paragrams. -- Addison.
Paragrammatist (n.) A punster.
Paragrandine (n.) An instrument to avert the occurrence of hailstorms. See Paragr[^e]le. -- Knight.
Paragraphed (imp. & p. p.) of Paragraph
Paragraphing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paragraph
Paragraph (v. t.) To divide into paragraphs; to mark with the character [para].
Paragraph (v. t.) To express in the compass of a paragraph; as, to paragraph an article.
Paragraph (v. t.) To mention in a paragraph or paragraphs.
Paragraph (n.) Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character [para], commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.
Note: This character is merely a modification of a capital P (the initial of the word paragraph), the letter being reversed, and the black part made white and the white part black for the sake of distinctiveness.
Paragraph (n.) A distinct part of a discourse or writing; any section or subdivision of a writing or chapter which relates to a particular point, whether consisting of one or many sentences. The division is sometimes noted by the mark [para], but usually, by beginning the first sentence of the paragraph on a new line and at more than the usual distance from the margin, also called indenting the line. See indentation [4].
Paragraph (n.) A brief composition complete in one typographical section or paragraph; an item, remark, or quotation comprised in a few lines forming one paragraph; as, a column of news paragraphs; an editorial paragraph.
Paragraph (n.) One of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line.
Paragraph (v.) Divide into paragraphs, as of text; "This story is well paragraphed".
Paragraph (v.) Write about in a paragraph; "All her friends were paragraphed in last Monday's paper".
Paragraph (v.) Write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher.
Paragrapher (n.) A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist.
Paragrapher (n.) A writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper).
Paragraphic (a.) Alt. of Paragraphical
Paragraphical (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, a paragraph or paragraphs. -- Par`a*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
Paragraphist (n.) A paragrapher.
Paragraphistical (a.) Of or relating to a paragraphist. [R.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Para grass, () A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil.
Para grass, Par'a grass (Bot.) A tall rather coarse grass ({Panicum molle formerly Panicum barbinode) grown in the tropics for pasturage, and introduced into the southern United States from Brazilas a valuable pasture grass.
Para grass, Par'a grass Piassaba fiber.
Paragrele (n.) A lightning conductor erected, as in a vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in order to prevent hailstorms. [France] -- Knight.
Paraguay (n.) 巴拉圭（南美國家） A country in South America.
Paraguayan (a.) 巴拉圭的（巴拉圭人的） Of or pertaining to Paraguay.
Paraguayan (n.) 巴拉圭人 A native or inhabitant of Paraguay.
Paraguayan (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of Paraguay or its people.
Paraguay tea () See Mate, the leaf of the Brazilian holly.
Paraguay tea (n.) South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea [syn: mate, Paraguay tea, Ilex paraguariensis].
Parail (n.) See Apparel. [Obs.] "In the parail of a pilgrim." -- Piers Plowman.
Parakeet (n.) (Zool.) Same as Parrakeet.
Parrakeet, Parakeet, (n.) [See Paroquet.] (Zool.) 長尾小鸚鵡 Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet.
Note: Many of the Asiatic and Australian species belong to the genus Paleornis; others belong to Polytelis, Platycercus, Psephotus, Euphema, and allied genera. The American parrakeets mostly belong to the genus Conurus, as the Carolina parrakeet ({Conurus Carolinensis). Parral
Parakeet (n.) Any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots [syn: parakeet, parrakeet, parroket, paraquet, paroquet, parroquet].
Paralactic (a.) (Physiol. Chem.) Designating an acid called paralactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic.
Paralbumin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A proteidlike body found in the fluid from ovarian cysts and elsewhere. It is generally associated with a substance related to, if not identical with, glycogen.
Paraldehyde (n.) A polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance.
Paraldehyde (n.) (Chem.) A trimer of acetaldehyde ({C6H12O3), prepared by polymerization of acetaldehyde with hydrochloric and sulfuric acids. It has sedative and hypnotic properties. -- MI11
Paraldehyde (n.) A colorless liquid (a cyclic trimer of acetaldehyde) that is used as a sedative and a solvent [syn: paraldehyde, ethanal trimer].
Paraleipsis (n.) (Rhet.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice." [Written also paralepsis, paralepsy, paralipsis.]
Preterition (n.) The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past. -- Bp. Hall.
Preterition (n.) (Rhet.) A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, "I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just." Called also paraleipsis.
Preterition (n.) (Law) The omission by a testator of some one of his heirs who is entitled to a portion. -- Bouvier.
Paraleipsis (n.) (Rhet.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice." [Written also paralepsis, paralepsy, paralipsis.]
Paralepsis (n.) [NL.] See Paraleipsis.
Paraleipsis (n.) Suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted [syn: paralepsis, paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition].
Paralian (n.) A dweller by the sea. [R.]
Paralipomenon (n. pl.) A title given in the Douay Bible to the Books of Chronicles.
Note: In the Septuagint these books are called Paraleipome`nwn prw^ton and dey`teron, which is understood, after Jerome's explanation, as meaning that they are supplementary to the Books of Kings -- W. Smith.
Paralipomenon (n.) (Old Testament) An obsolete name for the Old Testament books of I Chronicles and II Chronicles which were regarded as supplementary to Kings.
Paralipsis (n.) See Paraleipsis. Parallactic
Paraleipsis (n.) (Rhet.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice." [Written also paralepsis, paralepsy, paralipsis.].
Paralipsis (n.) Suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted [syn: paralepsis, paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition].
Parallactic (a.) Alt. of Parallactical
Parallactical (a.) Of or pertaining to a parallax.
Parallax (n.) The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view.
Parallax (n.) (Astron.) The apparent difference in position of a body (as the sun, or a star) as seen from some point on the earth's surface, and as seen from some other conventional point, as the earth's center or the sun.
Parallax (n.) (Astron.) The annual parallax. See annual parallax, below.
Annual parallax, The greatest value of the heliocentric parallax, or the greatest annual apparent change of place of a body as seen from the earth and sun; it is equivalent to the parallax of an astronomical object which would be observed by taking observations of the object at two different points one astronomical unit (the distance of the Earth from the sun) apart, if the line joining the two observing points is perpendicular to the direction to the observed object; as, the annual parallax of a fixed star.
The distance of an astronomical object from the Earth is inversely proportional to the annual parallax. A star which has an annual parallax of one second of an arc is considered to be one parsec (3.26 light years) distant from the earth; a star with an annual parallax of one-hundredth second of an arc is 326 light years distant.
See parsec in the vocabulary, and stellar parallax, below.
Binocular parallax, The apparent difference in position of an object as seen separately by one eye, and then by the other, the head remaining unmoved.
Diurnal parallax or Geocentric parallax, The parallax of a body with reference to the earth's center. This is the kind of parallax that is generally understood when the term is used without qualification.
Heliocentric parallax, The parallax of a body with reference to the sun, or the angle subtended at the body by lines drawn from it to the earth and sun; as, the heliocentric parallax of a planet.
Horizontal parallax, The geocentric parallx of a heavenly body when in the horizon, or the angle subtended at the body by the earth's radius.
Optical parallax, The apparent displacement in position undergone by an object when viewed by either eye singly. -- Brande & C.
Parallax of the cross wires (of an optical instrument), Their apparent displacement when the eye changes its position, caused by their not being exactly in the focus of the object glass.
Stellar parallax, The annual parallax of a fixed star.
Parallax (n.) The apparent displacement of an object as seen from two different points that are not on a line with the object
Parallel (a.) (Geom.) Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.
Revolutions
. . . parallel to the equinoctial. -- Hakluyt.
Note: Curved lines or curved planes are said to be parallel when
they are in all parts equally distant.
Parallel (a.) Having the same direction or tendency; running side
by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; -- used with
to and with.
When honor runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it can not be too much cherished. -- Addison.
Parallel (a.) Continuing a
resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like;
similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage. -- Addison.
Parallel bar. (Steam Eng.) A rod in a parallel motion which is parallel
with the working beam.
Parallel bar. One of a pair of bars raised about five feet above the floor or ground, and parallel to each other, -- used for gymnastic exercises.
Parallel circles of a sphere, Those circles of the sphere whose planes are parallel to each other.
Parallel columns, or Parallels (Printing), Two or more passages of reading matter printed side by side, for the purpose of emphasizing the similarity or discrepancy between them.
Parallel forces (Mech.), Forces which act in directions parallel to each other.
Parallel motion. (Mach.) A jointed system of links, rods, or bars, by which the motion of a reciprocating piece, as a piston rod, may be guided, either approximately or exactly in a straight line. -- Rankine.
Parallel motion. (Mus.) The ascending or descending of two or more parts at fixed intervals, as thirds or sixths.
Parallel rod (Locomotive Eng.), A metal rod that connects the crank pins of two or more driving wheels; -- called also couping rod, in distinction from the connecting rod. See Illust. of Locomotive, in App. -- Parallel ruler, an instrument for drawing parallel lines, so constructed as to have the successive positions of the ruling edge parallel to each other; also, one consisting of two movable parts, the opposite edges of which are always parallel.
Parallel sailing (Naut.), Sailing on a parallel of latitude.
Parallel sphere (Astron. & Geog.), That position of the sphere in which the circles of daily motion are parallel to the horizon, as to an observer at either pole.
Parallel vise, A vise having jaws so guided as to remain parallel in all positions.
Parallel (n.) A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc.
Who made the spider parallels design, Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line ? -- Pope.
Parallel (n.) Direction conformable to that of another line.
Lines that from their parallel decline. -- Garth.
Parallel (n.) Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity.
Twixt earthly females and the moon All parallels exactly run. -- Swift.
Parallel (n.) A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope.
Parallel (n.) Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart.
None but thyself can be thy parallel. -- Pope.
Parallel (n.) (Geog.) One of the imaginary circles on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, marking the latitude; also, the corresponding line on a globe or map; as, the counry was divided into North and South at the 38th parallel.
Parallel (n.) (Mil.) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.
Parallel (n.) (Print.) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines (thus, ) used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.
Parallel (n.) (Elec.) That arrangement of an electrical system in which all positive poles, electrodes, terminals, etc., are joined to one conductor, and all negative poles, etc., to another conductor; -- called also multiple. Opposed to series.
Note: Parts of a system so arranged are said to be
in parallel or in multiple.
Limiting parallels. See under Limit, v. t.
Parallel of altitude (Astron.), One of the small circles of the sphere, parallel to the horizon; an almucantar.
Parallel of declination (Astron.), One of the small circles of the sphere, parallel to the equator.
Parallel of latitude. (Geog.) See def. 6. above.
Parallel
of latitude.
(Astron.) One of the small circles of the sphere, parallel to the ecliptic.
Paralleled (imp. & p. p.) of Parallel
Paralleling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parallel
Parallel (v. t.) 使成平行；與……平行；比較 [（+with）] To place or set so as to be parallel; to place so as to be parallel to, or to conform in direction with, something else.
The needle . . . doth parallel and place itself upon the true meridian. -- Sir T. Browne.
Parallel (v. t.) Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like.
His life
is paralleled Even with the stroke and line of his great justice. -- Shak.
Parallel (v. t.) To equal; to match; to correspond to. --
Shak.
Parallel (v. t.) To produce or
adduce as a parallel. [R.] -- Locke.
My young remembrance can not parallel A fellow to it. -- Shak.
Parallel (v. i.) To be parallel; to correspond; to be like. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Parallel (a.) 平行的，同方向的 [（+to/ with）]；相同的；類似的 [（+to）] Being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting; "parallel lines never converge"; "concentric circles are parallel"; "dancers in two parallel rows" [ant: oblique, perpendicular].
Parallel (a.) Of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations; "parallel processing".
Parallel (n.) 平行線；平行面 [C] [（+to/ with）]；類似的人（或事物），可相比擬的人（或事物） [C] [（+to/ with）] Something having the property of being analogous to something else [syn: analogue, analog, parallel].
Parallel (n.) An imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator [syn: latitude, line of latitude, parallel of latitude, parallel].
Parallel (n.) (Mathematics) One of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes); "parallels never meet".
Parallel (v.) Be parallel to; "Their roles are paralleled by ours".
Parallel (v.) Make or place parallel to something; "They paralleled the ditch to the highway" [syn: parallel, collimate].
Parallel (v.) Duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse" [syn: twin, duplicate, parallel].
Parallel processing
Multiprocessing
Multiprocessor
Parallel
Parallel computing
(Or "multiprocessing") The simultaneous use of more than one computer to solve a problem. There are many different kinds of parallel computer (or "parallel processor"). They are distinguished by the kind of interconnection between processors (known as "processing elements" or PEs) and between processors and memory. Flynn's taxonomy also classifies parallel (and serial) computers according to whether all processors execute the same instructions at the same time ("{single instruction/multiple data" - SIMD) or each processor executes different instructions ("{multiple instruction/multiple data" - MIMD).
The processors may either communicate in order to be able to cooperate in solving a problem or they may run completely independently, possibly under the control of another processor which distributes work to the others and collects results from them (a "{processor farm"). The difficulty of cooperative problem solving is aptly demonstrated by the following dubious reasoning:
If it takes one man one minute to dig a post-hole then sixty men can dig it in one second.
Amdahl's Law, States this more formally.
Processors communicate via some kind of network or bus or a combination of both. Memory may be either shared memory (all processors have equal access to all memory) or private (each processor has its own memory - "{distributed memory") or a combination of both.
Many different software systems have been designed for programming parallel computers, both at the operating system and programming language level. These systems must provide mechanisms for partitioning the overall problem into separate tasks and allocating tasks to processors. Such mechanisms may provide either implicit parallelism - the system (the compiler or some other program) partitions the problem and allocates tasks to processors automatically or explicit parallelism where the programmer must annotate his program to show how it is to be partitioned. It is also usual to provide synchronisation primitives such as semaphores and monitors to allow processes to share resources without conflict.
Load balancing Attempts to keep all processors busy by allocating new tasks, or by moving existing tasks between processors, according to some algorithm.
Communication between tasks may be either via shared memory or message passing. Either may be implemented in terms of the other and in fact, at the lowest level, shared memory uses message passing since the address and data signals which flow between processor and memory may be considered as messages.
The terms "parallel processing" and "multiprocessing" imply multiple processors working on one task whereas "{concurrent processing" and "{multitasking}" imply a single processor sharing its time between several tasks.
Parallelable (a.) Capable of being paralleled, or equaled. [R.] -- Bp. Hall.
Parallelism (n.) The quality or state of being parallel.
Parallelism (n.) Resemblance; correspondence; similarity.
A close parallelism of thought and incident. -- T. Warton.
Parallelism (n.) Similarity of construction or meaning of clauses placed side by side, especially clauses expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, as is common in Hebrew poetry; e. g.: At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. -- Judg. v. 27.
Parallelism (n.) Similarity by virtue of corresponding [syn: parallelism, correspondence].
Parallelistic (a.) Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism.
The antithetic or parallelistic form of Hebrew poetry is entirely lost. -- Milman.
Parallelize (v. t.) To render parallel. [R.]
Parallelize (v.) Place parallel to one another.
Parallelless (a.) Matchless. [R.]
Parallelly (adv.) In a parallel manner; with parallelism. [R.] -- Dr. H. More.
Parallelogram (n.) (Geom.) （幾何）平行四邊形 A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles.
Parallelogram of velocities, parallelogram of forces, parallelogram of accelerations, parallelogram of momenta, etc. (Mech.), A parallelogram the diagonal of which represents the resultant of two velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc., both in quantity and direction, when the velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc., are represented in quantity and direction by the two adjacent sides of the parallelogram.
Parallelogram (n.) A quadrilateral whose opposite sides are both parallel and equal in length [ant: trapezium].
Parallelogrammatic (a.) Of or pertaining to a parallelogram; parallelogrammic. Parallelogrammic
Parallelogrammic (a.) Alt. of Parallelogrammical
Parallelogrammical (a.) Having the properties of a parallelogram. [R.]
Parallelopiped (n.) (Geom.) 平行六邊形 A solid, the faces of which are six parallelograms, the opposite pairs being parallel, and equal to each other; a prism whose base is a parallelogram.
Syn: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon.
Parallelopiped (n.) A prism whose bases are parallelograms [syn: parallelepiped, parallelopiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon].
Parallelopipedon (n.) A parallelopiped. -- Hutton.
Parallelopipedon (n.) A prism whose bases are parallelograms [syn: parallelepiped, parallelopiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon].
Paralogical (a.) Containing paralogism; illogical. "Paralogical doubt." -- Sir T. Browne.
Paralogism (n.) (Logic) 謬誤推理；背理；不合邏輯的推論 A reasoning which is false in point of form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formulae; a formal fallacy, or pseudo-syllogism, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises.
Paralogism (n.) An unintentionally invalid argument.
Paralogized (imp. & p. p.) of Paralogize
Paralogizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paralogize
Paralogize (v. i.) 作謬誤推論 To reason falsely; to draw conclusions not warranted by the premises. [R.]
Paralogy (n.) 形似性；邏輯倒錯；旁系同源 False reasoning; paralogism.
Paralogy (In British) (n.) (Biology) An anatomical similarity without shared ancestry.
‘Bradford's sole Paralympian, Pete Finbow, is confident Great Britain will be in the mix for men's wheelchair basketball medals.’
Paralympian (n.) 殘奧運動員 Someone who competes in the Paralympic Games.
Paralympian (a.) 殘奧會的，有關殘奧會的 Relating to the Paralympic Games.
Paralympic Games (n.) 殘疾人奧林匹克運動會（英語：Paralympic Games），又譯為帕拉林匹克運動會、傷帕運林匹克運動會，簡稱帕運會、帕運、帕奧，是一項為身心障礙者而舉辦的綜合型國際體育賽事，詞源由Paraplegia（下半身不遂）的Para，加上Olympic的lympic組成 [1]。參賽者包括移動障礙、截肢、失明、腦性麻痺等帶有身心障礙的運動員。1960年起開始舉辦夏季帕運（東京則聲稱1964年東京夏季帕運係首次正式夏季帕運）、1976年開始舉辦冬季帕運，兩者的舉辦時程分別於1988年及1992年起與奧林匹克運動會同步，包括在同一個主辦城市、以及在奧林匹克運動會閉幕後的一個月內舉行。The Paralympic Games or Paralympics are a periodic series of international multi-sport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities, including impaired muscle power (e.g. paraplegia and quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, post-polio syndrome, spina bifida), impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency (e.g. amputation or dysmelia), leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, are held almost immediately following the respective Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
Paralyse (v. t.) 使麻痺；使癱瘓；使全面停頓；使無力，使不能活動；使氣餒；使驚呆 Same as Paralyze.
Paralyse (v.) Make powerless and unable to function; "The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation" [syn: paralyze, paralyse].
Paralyse (v.) Cause to be paralyzed and immobile; "The poison paralyzed him"; "Fear paralyzed her" [syn: paralyze, paralyse].
Paralysis (n.) (Med.) 麻痺，停頓，癱瘓 Abolition of function, whether complete or partial; esp., the loss of the power of voluntary motion, with or without that of sensation, in any part of the body; palsy. See Hemiplegia, and Paraplegia. Also used figuratively ; as, paralysis of the will. "Utter paralysis of memory." -- G. Eliot.
Mischievous practices arising out of the paralysis of the powers of ownership. -- Duke of Argyll (1887).
Paralysis (n.) Loss of the ability to move a body part [syn: paralysis, palsy].
Paralytic (a.) 麻痺的，患麻痺的，中風的 Of or pertaining to paralysis; resembling paralysis.
Paralytic (a.) Affected with paralysis, or palsy.
The cold, shaking, paralytic hand. -- Prior.
Paralytic (a.) Inclined or tending to paralysis.
Paralytic secretion (Physiol.), 【醫】 麻痹性分泌 The fluid, generally thin and watery, secreted from a gland after section or paralysis of its nerves, as the paralytic saliva.
Paralytic (n.) 麻痺患者，中風患者 A person affected with paralysis.
Paralytic (a.) Relating to or of the nature of paralysis; "paralytic symptoms" [syn: paralytic, paralytical].
Paralytic (a.) Affected with paralysis [syn: paralytic, paralyzed].
Paralytic (n.) A person suffering from paralysis.
Paralytical (a.) 麻痹的；癱瘓的See Paralytic.
Paralytical (a.) Relating to or of the nature of paralysis; "paralytic symptoms" [syn: {paralytic}, {paralytical}].
Paralyzation (n.) 癱瘓 The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.