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parallel

English

  1. 🔊 being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting
    “parallel lines never converge”
  2. 🔊 of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations
    “parallel processing”
  3. 🔊 (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes)
    “parallels never meet”
  4. 🔊 something having the property of being analogous to something else
  5. 🔊 an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
  6. 🔊 make or place parallel to something
    “They paralleled the ditch to the highway”
  7. 🔊 be parallel to
    “Their roles are paralleled by ours”
  8. 🔊 duplicate or match
    “The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 paralela parallel
  2. 🔊 paralelo parallel
  3. 🔊 paralelamente parallel, in a parallel way

Similar words

analogue analog latitude line of latitude parallel of latitude collimate twin duplicate antarctic zone arctic circle arctic zone frigid zones lambert conformal projection mercator projection miller projection torrid zone tropic of cancer tropic of capricorn variable zones abri accessory accompanying accord admit of comparison