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"Parallel" Definition
noun
A comparison indicating likeness; an analogy.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Any of the imaginary lines representing degrees of latitude that encircle the earth parallel to the plane of the equator.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Electronics An arrangement of components in a circuit that splits the current into two or more paths. Used chiefly in the phrase in parallel.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Mathematics One of a set of parallel geometric figures, such as lines or planes.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
One that closely resembles or is analogous to another: a unique event, without parallel in history.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
adjective
Being an equal distance apart everywhere: dancers in two parallel rows. See Usage Note at absolute.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Computer Science Of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations: parallel processing.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
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.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Electronics Denoting a circuit or part of a circuit connected in parallel.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Grammar Having identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
adverb
In a parallel relationship or manner: a road and a railway that run parallel.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
In a parallel manner.
Source: Merriam-Webster
verb-transitive
To be or extend parallel to: a trail that parallels the crater rim.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To be or provide an equal for; match.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To be similar or analogous to: claimed that fetal development parallels the evolution of the species.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To make or place parallel to something else: paralleled the ditch to the highway.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
verb
To indicate analogy of .
Source: Merriam-Webster
To show something equal to .
Source: Merriam-Webster
To correspond to.
Source: Merriam-Webster
To place so as to be parallel in direction with something.
Source: Merriam-Webster
To extend, run, or move in a direction parallel to.
Source: Merriam-Webster
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