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parallel
adj

1. Said of lines, planes, etc: the same distance apart at every point; alongside and never meeting or intersecting.

Example: parallel lines
Example: a road parallel to the High Street
Thesaurus: equidistant, aligned, alongside, collateral; Antonym: convergent, divergent.
2. Similar; exactly equivalent; corresponding; analogous.

Example: parallel careers
Thesaurus: like, similar, analogous, correspondent, homologous.

adverb

1. Alongside and at an unvarying distance from it.

Form: parallel to something (often)

noun

1. geom.
A line or plane parallel to another.
2. A corresponding or equivalent instance of something.

Thesaurus: equivalent, match, duplicate, likeness, similarity, correlation, analogue, analogy, corollary, correlation, counterpart.
3. Any of the lines of latitude circling the Earth parallel to the equator and representing a particular angular degree of distance from it. Also called parallel of latitude.

verb paralleled, paralleling

1. To equal.
2. To correspond to or be equivalent to something.

Thesaurus: match, duplicate, correlate to, resemble, correspond to, agree with.
3. To be or to run parallel to something.

Derivative: parallelwise
adverb

Idiom: in parallel

Said of electrical appliances: so co-ordinated that terminals of the same polarity are connected.

Simultaneously.

Idiom: on a parallel with something

Corresponding to it.

Idiom: without parallel

Unequalled; unprecedented.

Etymology: 16c: from Greek parallelos side by side.