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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



... States; a member of the Romish Church; a woman of obscure birth, poor and portionless, and in ill-health; worse than all, a public woman, who had sung for money, and yet who had made Harry desert his home and country and profession for her. And with this train of thought another ran parallel,—the shame and the wrong of it all. The disgrace to his wife and daughters, the humiliation to himself. Each bitter thought beat on his heart like the hammer on the anvil. They fought and blended with each ...
— The Squire of Sandal-Side - A Pastoral Romance • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... always, she had access to almost all of him; but now she did not have access to his unguessable torment, nor to the long parallel columns of mental book-keeping running their totalling balances from moment to moment, day and night, in his brain. In one column were her undoubtable spontaneous expressions of her usual love and care for him, her many acts of comfort-serving ...
— On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales • Jack London
... stepping-stone to higher things, was now widely regarded as a stumbling-block. Though far from a scientific conception of natural law, many men had become sufficiently monistic in their philosophy to see in the current hagiolatry a sort of polytheism. Erasmus freely drew the parallel between the saints and the heathen deities, and he and others scourged the grossly materialistic form which this worship often took. If we may believe him, fugitive nuns prayed for help in hiding their sin; merchants for a rich haul; ...
— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith
... the flaws and failures of female intelligence that the parallel applies. A very pleasant old parson, whom I knew when I was a boy, and who used to discourse to me much about Edmund Burke and Gavin Hamilton, told me once that he met old Primate Stewart one day returning from a visitation, and turned his horse round to accompany the carriage for some distance. ...
— Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General - Originally Published In Blackwood's Magazine - 1864 • Charles Lever
... thing to delay the train was an elephant, who walked the track ahead of us and when the engine whistled only put on speed. Hypnotized by the tracks that reached in parallel lines to the horizon, with trunk outstretched, ears up, and silly tail held horizontally he set himself the impossible task of leaving us behind. The more we cheered, the more the engine screamed, the fiercer and less dignified ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy


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