Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word PARALLEL

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Definitions of PARALLEL

1. Equally distant from one another at all points.
2. Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
3. With a parallel relationship.
4. One of a set of parallel lines.
5. Direction conformable to that of another line.
6. A line of latitude.
7. An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
8. Something identical or similar in essential respects.
9. A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.
10. To construct or place something parallel to something else.
11. Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
12. Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
13. To compare or liken something to something else.
14. To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
15. To equal; to match; to correspond to.
16. To produce or adduce as a parallel.
17. (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.
18. (computing) Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.
19. (figuratively) Analogous, similar, comparable.
20. (science fiction, of realities, dimensions, timelines, etc.) Coexisting but normally not interacting with the regular reality.
21. (military) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.
22. (printing) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines, used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.

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Examples of Using PARALLEL in a Sentence

• Detailed morphological and molecular studies have shown that the group is not actually monophyletic, with proposed floral homologies of the gnetophytes and the angiosperms having evolved in parallel.
• Atomic semantics is a type of guarantee provided by a data register shared by several processors in a parallel machine or in a network of computers working together.
• It is located in the western part of the Nova Scotia peninsula, formed by a trough between two parallel mountain ranges along the shore of the Bay of Fundy.
• Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) is a parallel expansion card standard, designed for attaching a video card to a computer system to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
• Parallel ATA (PATA), originally , also known as Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE), is a standard interface designed for IBM PC-compatible computers.
• A backplane or backplane system is a group of electrical connectors in parallel with each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus.
• It is a type of parallelepiped, with pairs of parallel opposite faces, and more specifically a rhombohedron, with congruent edges, and a rectangular cuboid, with right angles between pairs of intersecting faces and pairs of intersecting edges.
• Key contributions include abstract data types, call-by-sharing, iterators, multiple return values (a form of parallel assignment), type-safe parameterized types, and type-safe variant types.
• A double-barreled shotgun, also known as a double shotgun, is a break-action shotgun with two parallel barrels, allowing two single shots that can be fired simultaneously or sequentially in quick succession.
• For a curve of constant width such as the Reuleaux triangle, the width and diameter are the same because all such pairs of parallel tangent lines have the same distance.
• The popularity of drum and bass at its commercial peak ran parallel to several other UK dance styles.
• The franchise focuses on the eponymous creatures that inhabit a "Digital World", which is a parallel universe that originated from Earth's various communication networks.
• Most euglenozoa have two flagella, which are inserted parallel to one another in an apical or subapical pocket.
• The organization operates in parallel with the European Union (EU), and all four member states participate in the European single market and are part of the Schengen Area.
• The ball begins on the ground with its long axis parallel to the sidelines of the field, its ends marking each team's line of scrimmage in American football; in Canadian football, the line of scrimmage of the team without the ball is 1 yard past their side of the ball.
• It was gradually expanded over 75 years and now has two parallel east–west runways, four operational passengers terminals and one cargo terminal.
• They operate outside of, or parallel to, traditional banking, financial channels and remittance systems.
• Since the end of World War II in 1945, it has been politically divided at or near the 38th parallel; in 1948, two states declared independence, both claiming sovereignty over the entire region: North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) in its northern half and South Korea (Republic of Korea; ROK) in the south, which fought the Korean War from 1950 to 1953.
• After the end of World War II in 1945, Korea, which had been a Japanese colony for 35 years, was divided by the Soviet Union and the US into two occupation zones at the 38th parallel, with plans for a future independent state.
• It originally referred to the replacement of vector supercomputers built with bipolar technology by Massively Parallel Processors (MPP) assembled from a larger number of lower performing microprocessors.
• As a director and screenwriter, he is considered one of the pioneers of Indian parallel or neo-realistic cinema.
• In gridiron football, a lateral pass or lateral (officially backward pass in American football and onside pass in Canadian football) occurs when the ball carrier throws the football to a teammate in a direction parallel to or away from the opponents' goal line.
• It contrasts with the drag force, which is the component of the force parallel to the flow direction.
• The Latin term labium/labia is used in anatomy for a number of usually paired parallel structures, but in English, it is mostly applied to two pairs of parts of the vulva—labia majora and labia minora.
• The term also refers generally to any necked string instrument having the strings running in a plane parallel to the sound table (in the Hornbostel–Sachs system).

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