parallel | English to English Dictionary

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parallel

('p/&/r/@/,l/E/l )

being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting(adj.all)

Example:
Parallel lines never converge.
Concentric circles are parallel.
Dancers in two parallel rows.

Antonym:
perpendicular

source: wordnet30
Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.(adjective)

source: webster1913

something having the property of being analogous to something else(noun.attribute)

Synonym:
analog, analogue

source: wordnet30
an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator(noun.location)

Synonym:
latitude, line of latitude, parallel of latitude

source: wordnet30
(mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes)(noun.shape)

Example:
Parallels never meet.

source: wordnet30
A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc.(noun)

source: webster1913
That arrangement of an electrical system in which all positive poles, electrodes, terminals, etc., are joined to one conductor, and all negative poles, etc., to another conductor; -- called also multiple. Opposed to series.(noun)

source: webster1913

be parallel to(verb.stative)

Example:
Their roles are paralleled by ours.

source: wordnet30
make or place parallel to something(verb.change)

Example:
They paralleled the ditch to the highway.

Synonym:
collimate

source: wordnet30
duplicate or match(verb.stative)

Synonym:
duplicate, twin

source: wordnet30
To place or set so as to be parallel; to place so as to be parallel to, or to conform in direction with, something else.(verb)

source: webster1913
To be parallel; to correspond; to be like.(verb)

source: webster1913