| Noun | 1. | parallel - something having the property of being analogous to something else | |
| 2. | parallel - an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equatorpolar circle - a line of latitude at the north or south poles horse latitude - either of two belts or regions near 30 degrees north or 30 degrees south; characterized by calms and light baffling winds line - a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent tropic - either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the torrid zone or tropics | |
| Verb | 1. | parallel - be parallel to; "Their roles are paralleled by ours"correspond, gibe, jibe, match, tally, agree, fit, check - be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" | |
| 2. | parallel - make or place parallel to something; "They paralleled the ditch to the highway"alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" | |
| 3. | parallel - duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse"correspond, gibe, jibe, match, tally, agree, fit, check - be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" | |
| Adj. | 1. | parallel - being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting; "parallel lines never converge"; "concentric circles are parallel"; "dancers in two parallel rows"comparable - able to be compared or worthy of comparison symmetric, symmetrical - having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts oblique - slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angular; "the oblique rays of the winter sun"; "acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles"; "the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base" perpendicular - intersecting at or forming right angles; "the axes are perpendicular to each other" | |
| 2. | parallel - of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations; "parallel processing"computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures synchronal, synchronic, synchronous - occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase; "recovery was synchronous with therapy"- Jour.A.M.A.; "a synchronous set of clocks"; "the synchronous action of a bird's wings in flight"; "synchronous oscillations" | |