Dictionary Definition
parallel adj
1 being everywhere equidistant and not
intersecting; "parallel lines never converge"; "concentric circles
are parallel"; "dancers in two parallel rows" [ant: perpendicular, oblique]
2 of or relating to the simultaneous performance
of multiple operations; "parallel processing"
Noun
2 an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to
the equator [syn: latitude, line of
latitude, parallel
of latitude]
Verb
1 be parallel to; "Their roles are paralleled by
ours"
2 make or place parallel to something; "They
paralleled the ditch to the highway" [syn: collimate]
3 duplicate or match; "The polished surface
twinned his face and chest in reverse" [syn: twin, duplicate] [also: parallelling, parallelled]
User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
Adjective
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Translations
of two or more (straight) lines, (flat) surfaces
etc: equally distant from one another at all points
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 平行 (píngxíng)
- Czech: rovnoběžný
- Dutch: evenwijdig, evenwijdige, parallel, parallelle
- Esperanto: paralela
- Finnish: rinnakkainen
- French: parallèle
- German: parallel
- Greek: παράλληλος
- Hebrew: m|p
- Hungarian: párhuzamos
- Italian: parallelo
- Japanese: 平行の (へいこうの, heikō no)
- Korean: 평행의 (pyeonghaeng-ui)
- Polish: równoległy
- Portuguese: paralelo
- Russian: параллельный (parallél’nyj)
- Spanish: paralelo
- Swedish: parallell
of one thing, relative to another: Equally
distant from at all points
Noun
- One of a set of parallel lines.
- 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
Antonyms
- perpendicular, skew (?)
Translations
one of a set of parallel lines
- Czech: rovnoběžka
- Dutch: evenwijdige
- German: Parallele
- Greek: παράλληλος
- Hebrew:
- Hungarian: párhuzamos vonal
line of latitude
- Czech: rovnoběžka
- Dutch: breedtegraad
- French: parallèle
- Greek: παράλληλος
- Hebrew:
- Hungarian: szélességi fok, szélességi kör
- Polish: równolężnik
Verb
Translations
to construct something parallel to something
else
- Korean: 갋다 (''galbda, gap-)
of a path etc: To be parallel to something else
- Hebrew:
- Korean: 나란하다 (naran-hada)
of a process etc: To be analogous to something
else
- Hebrew:
- Korean: 나란하다 (naran-hada)
to compare or liken something to something else
- Greek: παραλληλίζω
- Hebrew:
- Korean: 견주다 (gyeonjuda)
Related terms
German
Adjective
parallel- parallel
- Die Linien meines Schreibpapiers laufen exakt parallel.
- Die eine Bahnschiene verläuft auch in der Kurve stets parallel zur anderen.
- Die Linien meines Schreibpapiers laufen exakt parallel.
- Serving the same purpose, leading to the same result
- Die Autobahn verläuft parallel zur Eisenbahn aber in ganz
unterschiedlichen Biegungen und Kurven.
- Die Eheleute hatten nichts verabredet, so haben sie parallel (zueinander) eingekauft.
- Die Autobahn verläuft parallel zur Eisenbahn aber in ganz
unterschiedlichen Biegungen und Kurven.
Antonyms
Extensive Definition
Parallel may refer to:
Mathematics and science
- Parallel (geometry)
- Parallel (latitude), an imaginary east-west line circling a globe
Proper name
- Parallel (manga), a shōnen manga by Toshihiko Kobayashi
- Parallel (video), a video album by R.E.M.
- "The Parallel", an episode of The Twilight Zone
- Parallel 9, a British children's television show
- Parallel (Music) an alternative hip hop group based out of Southern California
- Avinguda del Paral·lel, one of the main streets of Barcelona
- "Parallel", the fourth track on Bad Religion's 1996 album The Gray Race
Music
- Parallel key, the minor (or major) key of a major (or minor) key with the same tonic
- Harmonic parallelism, also known as "harmonic planing" or "parallel voice leading"
- Parallel fifths, the concurrence of successive intervals of a perfect fifth between two voices
Other uses
- Parallelism (grammar), a balance of two or more similar words, phrases, or clauses
- Parallel algorithm
- Parallel circuits, as opposed to series
- Parallel computing
- Parallel cousin
- Parallel evolution
- Parallel import, also known as a "grey market product"
- Parallel universe (disambiguation)
- Parallel port
- Parallel communication
- Parallel parking
- Parallel study, a type of clinical study
- Parallel transport, in mathematics using vectors and smooth curves
- Parallels Workstation, virtualization software
parallel in Danish: Parallel
parallel in German: Parallele
parallel in French: Parallèle
parallel in Croatian: Paralela
parallel in Dutch: Parallellie
parallel in Japanese: 平行
parallel in Polish: Równoległy
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Antarctic Zone, Arctic Circle, Arctic Zone,
Frigid Zones, Lambert conformal projection, Mercator projection,
Miller projection, Torrid Zone, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of
Capricorn, Variable Zones, abri, accessory, accompanying, accord, admit of comparison,
aeronautical chart, affiliate, affiliated, agnate, agree, agree with, akin, align, aligned, alike, allied, ally, alter ego, amount to,
analogical, analogize, analogon, analogous, analogue, analogy, answer to, ape, appear like, apply, approach, approach trench,
approximate,
assent, assimilate, associate, associated, assort with,
astronomical chart, atlas,
attendant, attending, azimuthal
equidistant projection, azimuthal projection, balance, be commensurable, be
comparable, be consistent, be like, be of one, be parallel, be
redolent of, be uniform with, bear resemblance, bind, bound, bracket, bracketed, break even, bring
into analogy, bring into comparison, bring to mind, brother, bunker, call to mind, call up,
cartographer,
cartography,
celestial chart, celestial globe, chart, check, chime, chorographer, chorography, climate, climatic chart,
clime, close copy, close
match, coequal, coequality, coextend, coextending, coextensive, cognate, cohere, coincide, coincident, collatable, collateral, collimate, collocate, combined, come close, come
near, come to, come up to, commensurable, commensurate, communication
trench, companion,
comparable, comparative, compare, compare and contrast,
compare to, compare with, compeer, complement, concomitant, concur, concurrent, conform, conform to, conform
with, confront,
congenator, congener, congruent, conic projection,
conjoint, conjugate, connect, connected, consist with,
consonant, contemporaneous,
contemporary,
contour line, contour map, contrast, cooperate, coordinate, copy, correlate, correlated, correlation, correlative, correspond, correspond to,
correspond with, correspondence, correspondent, corresponding, counterbalance, counterfeit, countermine, counterpart, counterpose, couple, coupled, coupure, cylindrical projection,
ditch, ditto, double, double sap, dovetail, draw, draw a comparison, draw a
parallel, dugout,
duplicate, duplication, echo, entrenchment, equal, equality, equate, equator, equidistant, equipoise, equipollent, equiponderance, equispaced, equivalence, equivalent, even, even off, even up, evoke, fall in together, favor, fellow, fire trench, fit
together, flying sap, follow, fortified tunnel,
fosse, foxhole, gallery, general reference map,
globe, gnomonic
projection, go alongside, go beside, go together, go with, graphic
scale, grid line, hachure, hang together, harmonize, heliographic chart,
hit, hold together, homologous, homologue, horse latitudes,
hydrographic chart, identify, image, imitate, implicated, in proportion,
index, interlinked, interlock, interlocked, interrelate, interrelated, intersect, involved, isoline, iterate, jibe, joined, joint, keep pace with, kindred
spirit, kinship,
knot, knotted, latitude, layer tint, legend, like, liken, liken to, likeness, line up, lined up,
link, linked, lock, longitude, longitude in arc,
look like, map, map maker,
map projection, mapper,
match, match up with,
matchable, matching, mate, measure against, measure up
to, meridian, metaphorize, mimic, mine, mirror, moat, much at one, mutatis
mutandis, mutual,
near, near duplicate,
nearly reproduce, nonconvergent, nondivergent, not compare
with, not tell apart, obverse, of a kind, of a piece,
of a size, of that ilk, of that kind, offset, oppose, opposite number, overlap, paired, paragon, parallel bar, parallel
file, parallel line, parallelepiped, parallelepipedal,
paralleler, parallelinervate,
paralleling,
parallelism,
parallelize,
parallelodrome,
parallelogram,
parallelogrammatic,
parallelogrammic,
parallelotropic,
pari passu, parity,
partake of, peer, pendant, photogrammetrist,
photogrammetry,
photomap, phototopography,
physical map, picture,
place against, political map, polyconic projection, prime meridian,
projection, proportion, proportional, proportionate, reach, reciprocal, register, register with,
reiterate, relate, related, relationship, relative, relativize, relief map,
remind one of, repeat,
representative fraction, resemblance, resemble, respond to, rival, road map, roaring forties,
run a comparison, run abreast, run parallel, run to, sap, savor of, scale, second self, seem like, set
in contrast, set in opposition, set off, set off against, set over
against, similar,
similarity, similitude, similize, simulacrum, simulate, simultaneous, sing in
chorus, sinusoidal projection, sister, slit trench, smack of,
sort with, soul mate, sound like, special map, spliced, square, square with, stack up
with, stand together, subtropics, such, suchlike, suggest, symmetry, take after, tally, terrain map, terrestrial
globe, the like of, the likes of, the line, thematic map, tie, tied, topographer, topographic
chart, topography,
touch, transportation map,
trench, tropic, tropics, tunnel, twin, twinned, uniform, vie, vie with, view together,
weather chart, weather map, wed, wedded, weigh, weigh against, yoked, zone