Parallel is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PARALLEL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to be extended in the same direction
• be side by side with (something extending in a line), always keeping the same distance; run or lie parallel to
• be similar or corresponding to
• To place or set so as to be parallel; to place so as to be parallel to, or to conform in direction with, something else.
• Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like.
• To equal; to match; to correspond to.
• To produce or adduce as a parallel.
• To be parallel; to correspond; to be like.
• make or place parallel to something
• duplicate or match
• correspond to
NOUN:
• a person or thing that is similar or analogous to another
• a similarity or comparison
• two parallel lines (‖) as a reference mark.
• A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc.
• Direction conformable to that of another line,
• Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity.
• A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson\'s parallel between Dryden and Pope.
• Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart.
• One of the imaginary circles on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, marking the latitude; also, the corresponding line on a globe or map.
• One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.
• A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines (thus, ) used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.
• something having the property of being analogous to something else
• an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
• (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes)
• two parallel lines (‖) as a reference mark.
• line separated from another by an equal distance at every point
• each of the imaginary parallel circles of constant latitude on the earth's surface.
ADJECTIVE:
• of lines etc., extended in the same direction and equidistant in all parts
• (of lines, planes, or surfaces) side by side and having the same distance continuously between them
• occurring or existing at the same time or in a similar way; corresponding
• of or denoting electrical components or circuits connected to common points at each end, rather than one to another in sequence.
• involving the simultaneous performance of operations
• separated by an equal distance at every point
• Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.
• Having the same direction or tendency; running side by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; -- used with to and with.
• Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage.
• being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting
• of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to be similar or analogous to

Words related to PARALLEL

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Words that contain PARALLEL

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How to use PARALLEL in a sentence

• The walls of Paris follow the same line, falling about half a mile on the other side of the Arch, and parallel runs a line of railway within the fortified wall.
• In this rare quality he has no parallel in any age.
• Essex is moving parallel with us, and will try to get there first.
• But it contributed hugely at present to carry on the two parallel lines of her experience in the cage and her experience out of it.
• To this instance of striking correspondence between the peculiar nature of a spot and its peculiar religious history in Asia, a parallel may be found in Europe.
• Parallel, therefore, as is the change to be wrought out, it seems not improbable that it may be wrought out in an analogous way.
• The prospect that met his gaze was one in which two parallel straight lines met visibly in the region of somewhere.
• With respect to the inclination of the strata of rocks, I had observed them between the Blue Ridge and North Mountains in Virginia, to be parallel with the pole of the earth.
• The third administration, which was of eight years, presented an example of harmony in a cabinet of six persons, to which perhaps history has furnished no parallel.
• The stage is very narrow, but long, and divided from this space by a narrow enclosure parallel to it, I suppose for the orchestra.
• The line of division seemed to be about the parallel of latitude 45 degrees.
• The nearest parallel to it that I can think of is that of John Stuart Mill and Mrs.
• Did one ever establish contact with anyone? We are all parallel straight lines.
• New Testament, with marginal references, and parallel passages.
• The sacrifice demanded is such as to have no parallel whatsoever in the history of that community.
• It was in the Rue du Bois, a road which ran parallel with the trenches about 800 yards behind them.
• Half a mile back from the firing-line we turned off to the left and took our way by a road running parallel to the trenches.
• He opened his tremendous mouth, which would have been without parallel but for that of his opponent, who, far from being intimidated, opened an identical one.
• Melmoth, in his Letters, published under the name of Fitz Osborne, has produced some parallel passages, little to the advantage of Mr.
• They are by no means without parallel, and even those committed by the Federals have their exact counterpart in European warfare.
• Wellington, the most central city of New Zealand, is not far from the 41st parallel of southern latitude.
• Some piles forming two parallel rows about 4 feet apart were also discovered crossing the stream at right angles to its course.
• By this avenue, which extended for three statute miles, the palace was approached between two parallel lines of Spanish chestnuts.
• The diameter of the platform between parallel sides is 53 feet, while that of the lower course of battered masonry is but 37 feet.

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