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Parallel   /pˈɛrəlˌɛl/   Listen
Parallel

adjective
1.
Being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting.  "Concentric circles are parallel" , "Dancers in two parallel rows"  Antonyms: oblique, perpendicular.
2.
Of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations.
noun
1.
Something having the property of being analogous to something else.  Synonyms: analog, analogue.
2.
An imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator.  Synonyms: latitude, line of latitude, parallel of latitude.
3.
(mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes).
verb
(past & past part. paralleled; pres. part. paralleling)
1.
Be parallel to.
2.
Make or place parallel to something.  Synonym: collimate.
3.
Duplicate or match.  Synonyms: duplicate, twin.



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"Parallel" Quotes from Famous Books



... Court's determination to the contrary earlier the same year.[762] This lesson, stated in the Court's own language thirty years later, was, "It is Congress, and not the Judicial Department, to which the Constitution has given the power to regulate commerce * * *."[763] A parallel to the Wheeling Bridge episode occurred ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin
... herself travelling in the direction from which she had come, parallel to the railway, down the longest street that she had ever seen. On her left were ten thousand small new houses, all alike. On her right were broken patches of similar houses, interspersed with fragments of green field and views of the arches ...
— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett
... parallel passages about twelve feet in height, were formed by a triple row of shops. The centre row, giving back and front upon the Galleries, was filled with the fetid atmosphere of the place, and derived a dubious daylight through the invariably dirty windows of the roof; ...
— A Distinguished Provincial at Paris • Honore de Balzac
... Chaeronea, a Greek author of the first century A.D., wrote forty-six "parallel" Lives, of famous Greeks and Romans. Each famous Greek was contrasted with a famous Roman whose career was somewhat similar to his own. The Lives have been ever since among the most popular of ...
— An Introduction to Shakespeare • H. N. MacCracken
... from the margin nearest to an observer would be more sensible than those from the farther margin. Again, in slight earthquakes, such as the Cornwall earthquake of April 1, 1898,[83] the curves of equal sound intensity, while their axes are parallel to those of the isoseismal lines, are displaced laterally with respect to these curves, owing to the arrival of the strongest sound-vibrations from the upper margin ...
— A Study of Recent Earthquakes • Charles Davison


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