parallel

1. Being an equal distance apart everywhere: dancers in two parallel rows. See Usage Note at absolute.

2. Computer Science Of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations: parallel processing.

3. Computer Science Of or relating to the simultaneous transmission of all the bits of a byte over separate wires: a parallel port; a parallel interface.

4. Electronics Denoting a circuit or part of a circuit connected in parallel.

5. Grammar Having identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases.

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1. In a parallel relationship or manner: a road and a railway that run parallel.

2. In a parallel manner.

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1. A comparison indicating likeness; an analogy.

2. Any of the imaginary lines representing degrees of latitude that encircle the earth parallel to the plane of the equator.

3. Electronics An arrangement of components in a circuit that splits the current into two or more paths. Used chiefly in the phrase in parallel.

4. Mathematics One of a set of parallel geometric figures, such as lines or planes.

5. One that closely resembles or is analogous to another: a unique event, without parallel in history.

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1. To indicate analogy of .

2. To show something equal to .

3. To correspond to.

4. To place so as to be parallel in direction with something.

5. To extend, run, or move in a direction parallel to.

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1. To be or extend parallel to: a trail that parallels the crater rim.

2. To be or provide an equal for; match.

3. To be similar or analogous to: claimed that fetal development parallels the evolution of the species.

4. To make or place parallel to something else: paralleled the ditch to the highway.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
parallel	10	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
ae	2
er	2
el	2
re	2
la	2
aa	2
pa	4
pe	4
ar	2
al	2

3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
pal	5
lea	3
lar	3
par	5
lap	5
pea	5
era	3
ell	3
per	5
rap	5
rep	5
ear	3
aal	3
ala	3
ale	3
are	3
ape	5
all	3
alp	5

4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
reap	6
pall	6
para	6
pare	6
peal	6
pear	6
real	4
rape	6
plea	6
rale	4
alae	4
lear	4
leap	6
leal	4
lall	4
alar	4
aper	6
area	4
pale	6
earl	4

5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
pearl	7
areal	5
arepa	7
parle	7
parae	7
paler	7
palea	7
lapel	7

6 Letters	Scrabble® Points
paleal	8
paella	8
earlap	8

8 Letters	Scrabble® Points
parallel	10