Usually means: Strands oriented in opposite directions.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word antiparallel:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. antiparallel: Merriam-Webster
  2. antiparallel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. antiparallel: Collins English Dictionary
  4. antiparallel: Vocabulary.com
  5. antiparallel: Wordnik
  6. antiparallel: Wiktionary
  7. antiparallel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. antiparallel: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. antiparallel: Dictionary.com
  10. Antiparallel (biochemistry), Antiparallel (electronics), Antiparallel (mathematics), Antiparallel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Antiparallel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. antiparallel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. antiparallel: Rhymezone
  14. Antiparallel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. antiparallel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. antiparallel: FreeDictionary.org
  17. antiparallel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. antiparallel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. antiparallel: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. antiparallel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. antiparallel: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Antiparallel: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. antiparallel: Medical dictionary
  6. Antiparallel: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  3. Antiparallel: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

(Note: See antiparallels as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (antiparallel)

adjective:  (mathematics) (of vectors) Parallel but in opposite directions.
adjective:  (biochemistry) Describing the orientations of the two strands of DNA.
adjective:  (biochemistry) Describing two beta strands comprising a protein's secondary structure that are aligned and hydrogen bonded but where the vectors describing the amino- and carboxy-terminal ends of each strand are oriented 180° relative to one another.
noun:  (geometry) A line that forms equal angles with two other lines, but in opposite directions.

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