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adj
Equally distant from one another at all points.
The horizontal lines on my notebook paper are parallel.
the instrument held with its plane roughly parallel to the equinoctial or celestial equato
Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
The two railway lines are parallel.
When honour runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished.
Either not intersecting, or coinciding.
Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.
a parallel algorithm
Analogous, similar, comparable.
the parallel lives of two citizens
In those days she had admired his pluralistic openness of mind, and struggled, in her kitchen, towards a parallel eclecticism, learning to cook the dosas and uttapams of South India as well as the soft meatballs of Kashmir.
adv
With a parallel relationship.
The road runs parallel to the canal.
noun
One of a set of parallel lines.
Who made the spider parallels design, / Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line?
Direction conformable to that of another line.
lines that from their parallel decline
A line of latitude.
The 31st parallel passes through the center of my town.
An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
Something identical or similar in essential respects.
It has also been suggested that environmental crimes might include the proposed crime of ‘ecocide’ or ‘geocide’, with proponents of this view attempting to draw parallels between destructive acts towards the environment and those against the qualifying groups for genocide. […] [M]any who advocate for the creation of either ecocide or geocide principally argue that the best place to try such crimes is through an apparatus created in a separate and environment-oriented treaty.
None but thyself can be thy parallel.