parallel

parallel is a 8-letter English word with 24 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.
2. adjective. Having the same direction or tendency; running side by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; -- used with to and with.
3. adjective. Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage.
4. noun. A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc.
5. noun. Direction conformable to that of another line,
6. noun. Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity.
7. noun. A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope.
8. noun. Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart.
9. noun. 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.
10. noun. 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.
11. noun. 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.
12. transitive verb. 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.
13. transitive verb. Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like.
14. transitive verb. To equal; to match; to correspond to.
15. transitive verb. To produce or adduce as a parallel.
16. intransitive verb. To be parallel; to correspond; to be like.
17. noun. something having the property of being analogous to something else

    Synonyms: analog, analogue

18. noun. an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator

    Synonyms: latitude

19. noun. (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes)

    "parallels never meet"

20. verb. make or place parallel to something

    "They paralleled the ditch to the highway"

    Synonyms: collimate

21. verb. be parallel to

    "Their roles are paralleled by ours"

22. verb. duplicate or match

    "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse"

    Synonyms: duplicate, twin

23. adjective. being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting

    "parallel lines never converge"

    "concentric circles are parallel"

24. adjective. of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations

    "parallel processing"

Synonyms

analog, analogue, latitude, collimate, duplicate, twin

Common word forms

parallels, paralleled, paralleler, parallelly, paralleling, parallelise, parallelize, parallelled, parallelable, parallelless, parallelling

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