Definition: 1. Something having the property of being analogous to something else. 2. An imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator. 3. Be parallel to. 4. Make or place parallel to something. 5. Duplicate or match.
Use 'parallel' in a sentence:
1. Parallel rails had long been used in mining operations to move bigger loads, but horses were still the primary source of power.
2. If the glass were kept hot enough, it would flow over the molten tin until the top surface was also flat, horizontal and perfectly parallel to the bottom surface.
3. This trail was roughly parallel to the border.
4. Instead, the new habits we deliberately ingrain into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.
5. McGillicuddy looked from her window through the windows of the parallel carriages.
6. Controversy surrounds the question of whether recognition is a parallel, one-step process or a serial, step-by-step one.
7. The damage to American craftsmanship seems to parallel the steep slide in manufacturing employment.
8. It's an ecological disaster with no parallel anywhere else in the world.
9. The film has eerie parallels with the drama being played out in real life.
10. Remsen Street is parallel with Montague Street.
11. Progress on this issue must be made in parallel to any moves on the economic front.
12. At that time, his virtuosity on the trumpet had no parallel in jazz.
13. He decided to do his own study parallel to Eric Lee's, but much more pervasive.
14. Davies has managed to pursue his diverse interests in parallel with his fast-moving career.
15. The parallel and redundancy are implemented by using data communication method in emergency shutdown for enhancing the reliability of the system.
16. These ideas have parallels in Freud's thought too.
17. Friends of the dead lawyer were quick to draw a parallel between the two murders.
18. For example, DB2 supports massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture and can run on a single partition (EE) or multiple partitions (EEE).
19. This is a real world, running parallel to our own.
20. The answer is: avoid straight, parallel walls.
21. For a time the two trains ran parallel, now one gaining a little, now the other.
22. Psychologists of the Gestalt school maintain that objects are recognized as wholes in a parallel procedure: the internal representation is matched with the retinal image in a single operation.
23. The road and the canal are parallel to each other.
24. The plane flew parallel to the coast.
25. Parallel lines will never meet no matter how far extended.
26. Their instincts do not always run parallel with ours.
27. The notion of parallel worlds is inherent in your work, with dual story strands and different incarnations of certain characters.
28. Whereas in mammals the tiny tubes that convey nutrients to bone cells are arrayed in parallel lines, in birds the tubes form a random pattern.
29. The idea of a parallel universe is hard to grasp.
30. The parallel lines appear to diverge.
31. There are interesting parallels between the 1960s and the late 1990s.
32. This tradition has no parallel in our culture.
33. The road runs parallel to the river.
34. The road and the canal run parallel to each other.
35. A railway and a highway run parallel in this city.
36. Take the narrow lane going north-west parallel with the railway line.
37. Farthing Lane's just above the High Street and parallel with it.
38. Detailed study of folk music from a variety of countries reveals many close parallels.
39. The information could be used as a bargaining chip to extract some parallel information from Britain.
40. It is a place where the ancient and contemporary happily go along on parallel tracks.
41. There are significant parallels with the 1980s.
42. Readers familiar with English history will find a vague parallel to the suppression of the monasteries.
43. That passage interested me because it seems to parallel very closely what you're doing in the novel.
44. It is possible to draw a parallel between their experience and ours.
45. Do the emotions develop in parallel with the intellect?
46. The new degree and the existing certificate courses would run in parallel.
47. In the more typical case, there will have been parallel changes.
