Dictionary

parallel en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• audio nMmmm
• /ˈpaɹəˌlɛl/ (British, Southern, Standard)
• /ˈpæ.ɹəˌlɛl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• audio Mmmm

Etymology

From Middle French parallèle and its etymon Latin parallēlus, parallēlos. The verb is from the noun. See also para- and allo-.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) 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 1911, William Robert Martin, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Navigation:
   • Upon interaction with ss- nucleic acid (NA) targets (deoxyribooligonucleotides (ODNs) or ribooligonucleotides), they form very stable anti-parallel and parallel duplexes [3 ], and the melting temperatures of the antiparallel duplexes are 10 to 15°C higher than those of the parallel duplexes. 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
2. (not-comparable) Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
   • All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles. 1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 449:
   • When honour runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished. 1711 July 1 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, June 21, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 99; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
   • The two railway lines are parallel.
3. (excessive, not-comparable, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.
4. (not-comparable) Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.
   • a parallel algorithm
5. (figuratively, not-comparable) Analogous, similar, comparable.
   • 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. 1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 255:
   • the parallel lives of two citizens
6. (not-comparable, of realities, qualifier:dimensions, usually) Coexisting but normally not interacting with the regular reality.
   • parallel universe

Forms

Antonyms

antiparallel · perpendicular · serial · sequential · perpendicular · skew · skew

Coordinates

concurrent

Deriveds

quasiparallel · parallelization · parallel ruler · parallelable · teleparallel · multiparallel · parallelless · biparallel · parallelistic · parallel citation · parallelohedron · parallel postulate · parallel thinking · parallelity · parallel giant slalom · parallel port · parallel motion · subparallel · parallel key · superparallel · parallelness · ultraparallel · parallelize · planoparallel · pseudoparallel · massively parallel · autoparallel · parallel text · parallel processing · parallel bars · nonparallel · parallel dead space · parallel world · parallel slalom · parallelisation · parallel play · parallel park · parallel import · parallel gill trama · frontoparallel · plane-parallel · parallel society · parallel parking · parallel transport · parallel fifths · parallel compression · parallelise · parallel immersion · parallel axis theorem · embarrassingly parallel · parallel palette · hyperparallel · parallelwise · parallel market · parallel cousin · unparallel

Relateds

parallax

Translations (108)

fr parallèle à (having the same overall direction) · ca paral·lel (equally distant from one another at all points) · bg парале́лен (equally distant from one another at all points) · nl parallel met (having the same overall direction) · grc παράλληλος (having the same overall direction) · sl vzporeden (equally distant from one another at all points) · tr koşut (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines: either not intersecting, or coinciding) · az müvazi (having the same overall direction) · ga comhuaineach (computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time) · ga comhthreomhar (equally distant from one another at all points) · is samhliða (computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time) · ar مُتَوَازٍ (computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time) · fr parallèle (equally distant from one another at all points) · nl parallel (equally distant from one another at all points) · hu párhuzamos (equally distant from one another at all points) · et rööpne (having the same overall direction) · ga comhthreomhar (having the same overall direction) · ca paral·lel (having the same overall direction) · my ပြိုင် (equally distant from one another at all points) · ms selari (having the same overall direction) · cy paralel (equally distant from one another at all points) · gl paralelo (having the same overall direction) · be парале́льны (equally distant from one another at all points) · da parallel (equally distant from one another at all points) · uk парале́льний (equally distant from one another at all points) · nl evenwijdig (equally distant from one another at all points) · tl agapay (having the same overall direction) · id paralel (equally distant from one another at all points) · ru паралле́льный (equally distant from one another at all points) · fi yhdensuuntainen (equally distant from one another at all points) · he מקביל (equally distant from one another at all points) · tr paralel (computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time) · gl paralelo (equally distant from one another at all points) · nv ałhąąh ʼídzoh (equally distant from one another at all points) · cmn 平行的 (equally distant from one another at all points) · bg паралелен (computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time) · cs paralelní (computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time) · tr paralel (having the same overall direction) · he מקביל (having the same overall direction) · grc παράλληλος (equally distant from one another at all points) · cs rovnoběžný (equally distant from one another at all points) · uz muvoziy (equally distant from one another at all points) · az parallell (having the same overall direction) · ar مُوَازٍ (having the same overall direction) · ro paralel (having the same overall direction) · cs paralelní (having the same overall direction) · ar مُتَوَازٍ (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines: either not intersecting, or coinciding) · hy զուգահեռ (having the same overall direction) · no parallell (having the same overall direction) · es paralelo (equally distant from one another at all points) · mi whakarara (equally distant from one another at all points) · ja 平行の (equally distant from one another at all points) · ga comhthreomhar (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines: either not intersecting, or coinciding) · tr paralel (equally distant from one another at all points) · fa همراستا (equally distant from one another at all points) · km ស្រប (equally distant from one another at all points) · cy cyflin (equally distant from one another at all points) · th ขนาน (equally distant from one another at all points) · sv parallell (equally distant from one another at all points) · fi samansuuntainen (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines: either not intersecting, or coinciding) · id paralel (having the same overall direction) · fi rinnakkainen (computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time) · eo paralela (equally distant from one another at all points) · cs paralelní (equally distant from one another at all points) · de parallel zu (having the same overall direction) · es paralelo (computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time) · ro paralel (computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time) · da parallel (having the same overall direction) · de parallel (equally distant from one another at all points) · el παράλληλος (having the same overall direction) · es paralelo (having the same overall direction) · fi samansuuntainen (having the same overall direction) · pt paralelo (computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time) · ja 並列 (computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time) · hi समानान्तर (equally distant from one another at all points) · et rööpne (equally distant from one another at all points) · fi suuntainen (having the same overall direction) · ru паралле́льный (having the same overall direction) · pt paralelo (having the same overall direction) · tl agapay (equally distant from one another at all points) · el παράλληλος (computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time) · fa همراستا (having the same overall direction) · mk паралелен (equally distant from one another at all points) · kk қатар (equally distant from one another at all points) · fi rinnakkainen (jonkin kanssa) (having the same overall direction) · pt paralelo (equally distant from one another at all points) · pl równoległy (equally distant from one another at all points) · no parallell (equally distant from one another at all points) · bg успореден (equally distant from one another at all points) · uk рівнолежний (equally distant from one another at all points) · hy զուգահեռ (equally distant from one another at all points) · fi samansuuntainen (equally distant from one another at all points) · nl evenwijdig met/aan (having the same overall direction) · ms selari (equally distant from one another at all points) · it parallelo (equally distant from one another at all points) · tr koşut (computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time) · ko 평행의 (equally distant from one another at all points) · cs rovnoběžný (having the same overall direction) · el παράλληλος (equally distant from one another at all points) · hu párhuzamos (computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time) · cy cyfred (equally distant from one another at all points) · ru паралле́льный (computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time) · uk рівнолежний (having the same overall direction) · no parallell (computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time) · ro paralel (equally distant from one another at all points) · fa موازی (equally distant from one another at all points) · sa मञ्जरी (equally distant from one another at all points) · sv parallell (having the same overall direction)

parallel en · ADV

Pronunciation

• audio nMmmm
• /ˈpaɹəˌlɛl/ (British, Southern, Standard)
• /ˈpæ.ɹəˌlɛl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• audio Mmmm

Etymology

From Middle French parallèle and its etymon Latin parallēlus, parallēlos. The verb is from the noun. See also para- and allo-.

Meanings

1. With a parallel relationship.
   • The road runs parallel to the canal.

Forms

Relateds

parallelly

Translations (13)

no parallelt (with a parallel relationship) · mk паралелно (with a parallel relationship) · hu párhuzamosan (with a parallel relationship) · pl równolegle (with a parallel relationship) · pt paralelamente (with a parallel relationship) · de parallel (with a parallel relationship) · it parallelamente (with a parallel relationship) · bg успоредно (with a parallel relationship) · ru паралле́льно (with a parallel relationship) · fr parallèlement (with a parallel relationship) · el παράλληλα (with a parallel relationship) · fi samansuuntaisesti (jonkun kanssa) (with a parallel relationship) · cs souběžně (with a parallel relationship)

parallel en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• audio nMmmm
• /ˈpaɹəˌlɛl/ (British, Southern, Standard)
• /ˈpæ.ɹəˌlɛl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• audio Mmmm

Etymology

From Middle French parallèle and its etymon Latin parallēlus, parallēlos. The verb is from the noun. See also para- and allo-.

Meanings

1. One of a set of parallel lines.
   • Who made the spider parallels design, / Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line? 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
2. Direction conformable to that of another line.
   • lines that from their parallel decline 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary:
3. A line of latitude.
   • The 31st parallel passes through the center of my town.
4. An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
5. 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. 2013, Alexandra R. Harrington, “The Crime of Aggression and Threats to the Future”, in Sébastien Jodoin, Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, editors, Sustainable Development, International Criminal Justice, and Treaty Implementation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 161–162:
   • None but thyself can be thy parallel. 1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the Third”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
6. A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.
   • Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope
7. 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.
8. 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.

Forms

Translations (65)

fi samansuuntainen viiva (one of a set of parallel lines) · ru паралле́ль (line of latitude) · nl parallel (line of latitude) · de Breitenkreis (line of latitude) · nb breddegrad (line of latitude) · ru паралле́ль (one of a set of parallel lines) · de Parallele (one of a set of parallel lines) · nl parallel (one of a set of parallel lines) · hu szélességi fok (line of latitude) · it parallelo (line of latitude) · nb breddegradssirkel (line of latitude) · hy զուգահեռական (line of latitude) · hu szélességi kör (line of latitude) · eo paralelo (one of a set of parallel lines) · fr parallèle (line of latitude) · nl parallel (something identical or similar in essential respects) · uk рівнолежник (line of latitude) · ja 緯線 (line of latitude) · nb breddesirkel (line of latitude) · el παράλληλος (one of a set of parallel lines) · cmn 平行線 /平行线 (one of a set of parallel lines) · ga macasamhail (something identical or similar in essential respects) · uk парале́ль (line of latitude) · ga samhail (something identical or similar in essential respects) · hu párhuzam (something identical or similar in essential respects) · pl równoleżnik (line of latitude) · uk парале́ль (something identical or similar in essential respects) · ota تطبیق (elaborate tracing of one or more similarities) · ja 並列 (one of a set of parallel lines) · ga líne dhomhanleithid (line of latitude) · it omologo (something identical or similar in essential respects) · cmn 緯圈 /纬圈 (line of latitude) · el παράλληλος (line of latitude) · mi whakarara (one of a set of parallel lines) · ga líne leithid (line of latitude) · ga comparáid (something identical or similar in essential respects) · nl parallelcirkel (line of latitude) · ro paralelă (one of a set of parallel lines) · uk парале́ль (one of a set of parallel lines) · hu párhuzamos vonal (one of a set of parallel lines) · nl breedtecirkel (line of latitude) · pt paralela (one of a set of parallel lines) · nl breedtegraad (line of latitude) · cs rovnoběžka (line of latitude) · de Breitengrad (line of latitude) · cs rovnoběžka (one of a set of parallel lines) · es paralelo (line of latitude) · fr parallèle (one of a set of parallel lines) · pt paralelo (line of latitude) · no parallell (one of a set of parallel lines) · fi leveyspiiri (line of latitude) · kk параллель (one of a set of parallel lines) · cmn 緯綫 /纬线 (line of latitude) · bg успоредна линия (one of a set of parallel lines) · nl evenwijdige (one of a set of parallel lines) · bg аналогия (something identical or similar in essential respects) · he מקביל (one of a set of parallel lines) · pdt Änlichkjeit (something identical or similar in essential respects) · uk рівнолежник (one of a set of parallel lines) · he קבלה (elaborate tracing of one or more similarities) · nn breidegradssirkel (line of latitude) · nn breiddegrad (line of latitude) · hy զուգահեռ (one of a set of parallel lines) · bg паралел (line of latitude) · he קו רוחב (line of latitude)

wikidata: Q146591

parallel en · VERB

Pronunciation

• audio nMmmm
• /ˈpaɹəˌlɛl/ (British, Southern, Standard)
• /ˈpæ.ɹəˌlɛl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• audio Mmmm

Etymology

From Middle French parallèle and its etymon Latin parallēlus, parallēlos. The verb is from the noun. See also para- and allo-.

Meanings

1. To construct or place something parallel to something else.
   • The needle […] doth parallel and place itself upon the true meridian. 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
2. Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
   • Archaic covered bridges lingered fearsomely out of the past in pockets of the hills, and the half-abandoned railway track paralleling the river seemed to exhale a nebulously visible air of desolation. 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
   • Racing on, we parallel the M5 doing 95mph, according to the app on my smartphone. 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66:
3. Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
4. To compare or liken something to something else.
   • Although its spokesmen do not hesitate to parallel their oppression to that of blacks, the gay male community has chosen to ignore the voices of black gay men. 1984 April 14, Reginald Shepherd, “White Men's Black Men”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
   • These scholars argue that gender and sexual identity are like nature and the environment; they parallel the queer/performance connection to the environmental/performance connection. I consider, instead, how all these categories actively interact and overlap. 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 119:
5. To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
   • [H]is life is paralel’d / Euen with the ſtroke and line of his great Iuſtice: […] c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 76, column 1:
6. To equal; to match; to correspond to.
   • He will ſteale ſir an Egge out of a Cloiſter: for rapes and rauiſhments he paralels Neſſus. c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 248, column 2:
7. To produce or adduce as a parallel.
   • Who cannot parallel theſe ſtories out of his experience? 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Importunitie and Opportunity of the Place, Conference, Discourse, Singing, Dauncing, Musicke, Amorous Tales, Obiects, Kissing, Familiaritie, Tokens, Presents, Bribes, Promises, Protestations, Teares, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 2, member 2, subsection 4, page 587:
   • Macb[eth]. ’Twas a rough Night. / Lenox. My young remembrance cannot paralell / A fellow to it. c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 137, column 2:
   • Many have exerciſed their Wits in parallelling the Inconveniences of Regal and Popular Government, […] 1680, Robert Filmer, “It Is Unnatural for the People to Govern, or Chose Governours”, in Patriarcha: or The Natural Power of Kings, London: […] Walter Davis […], →OCLC, page 65:

Forms

Deriveds

parallelism (Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb parallel) · parallel computing (Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb parallel) · unparalleled (Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb parallel) · forty-ninth parallel (Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb parallel) · parallelogram (Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb parallel) · parallel circuit (Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb parallel) · parallel algorithm (Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb parallel) · embarrassingly parallel (Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb parallel) · antiparallel (Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb parallel) · imparalleled (Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb parallel) · parallel universe (Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb parallel)

Relateds

∥ · sequential

Translations (13)

el παραλληλίζω (to compare or liken something to something else) · fi olla samansuuntainen (of a path etc: to be parallel to something else) · ko 나란하다 (of a path etc: to be parallel to something else) · fi rinnastaa (to compare or liken something to something else) · sv liknas vid (of a process etc: to be analogous to something else) · bg сравнявам (to compare or liken something to something else) · ko 갋다 (to construct or place something parallel to something else) · he הִקְבִּיל (of a path etc: to be parallel to something else) · ko 나란하다 (of a process etc: to be analogous to something else) · he השווה \ הִשְׁוָה (to compare or liken something to something else) · bg съответствам (of a process etc: to be analogous to something else) · bg успореден съм (of a path etc: to be parallel to something else) · ko 견주다 (to compare or liken something to something else)