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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"
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



... suspect they are a new and undescribed variety. Being desirous of procuring anything I could for the men to eat I had the tops of some of these trees cut off and boiled, they were however still so hard that to chew them was impossible, and it was evident that we had not yet reached a parallel of latitude calculated ...
— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2) • George Grey
... For a parallel to Lot's answer to the demand of his neighbors we must go to the nineteenth chapter of Judges, where the men of Gibeah clamor for the Levite as the men of Sodom clamor for the two angels, and where his host offers them instead his own daughter as well as the Levite's concubine. ...
— Bible Romances - First Series • George W. Foote
... text of the Map names it as one of the seven Lu or Circuits of the Province of Kansuh (or Tangut). Indeed, in D'Anville's Atlas we find a river called Etsina Pira, running northward from Kanchau, and a little below the 41st parallel joining another from Suhchau. Beyond the junction is a town called Hoa-tsiang, which probably represents Etzina. Yetsina is also mentioned in Gaubil's History of Chinghiz as taken by that conqueror in 1226, on his last ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... officials have their home, and the prison called Hib Misbah receives all evil-doers, and men whose luck is ill. The Madinah is the general Moorish quarter, and embraces the Kaisariyah or bazaar district, where the streets are parallel, well cleaned, thatched with palm and palmetto against the light, and barred with a chain at either end to keep the animals from entering. The Mellah (literally "salted place") is the third great division of Marrakesh, ...
— Morocco • S.L. Bensusan
... of the Druid religion, Mr. Polwhele concludes that it derived its origin from the Persian magi. Dr. Borlasse has drawn a long and elaborate parallel between the Druids and Persians, where he has plainly proved that they resembled each other, as strictly as possible, in every ...
— Thaumaturgia • An Oxonian


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