Noun | 1. | parallel - something having the property of being analogous to something else |
2. | parallel - an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator | |
Verb | 1. | parallel - be parallel to; "Their roles are paralleled by ours" |
2. | parallel - make or place parallel to something; "They paralleled the ditch to the highway" Synonyms: collimate | |
3. | parallel - duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse" | |
Adj. | 1. | parallel - being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting; "parallel lines never converge"; "concentric circles are parallel"; "dancers in two parallel rows" Antonyms: 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" |