Parallel
Meanings and phrases
parallel
- being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting
- of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations
parallel
- something having the property of being analogous to something else; analogue; analog
- an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator; latitude; line of latitude; parallel of latitude
- (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes)
parallel
- be parallel to
- make or place parallel to something; collimate
- duplicate or match; twin; duplicate
Parallel Lives
- a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays
n.
- only one line can be drawn through a point parallel to another line; Euclid's fifth axiom
n.
- gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights; bars
- The first is a straddled Healy twirl on parallel bars.
- Liukin won the silver medal in the all-around and on the parallel bars.
- Pete, wearing nothing on his upper body, shows off for Saadia, giving her a private demonstration of his skills on the parallel bars.
n.
- a closed circuit in which the current divides into two or more paths before recombining to complete the circuit; shunt circuit
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- an interface between a computer and a printer where the computer sends multiple bits of information to the printer simultaneously; parallel port
n.
- an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator; latitude; line of latitude; parallel
n.
- an interface between a computer and a printer where the computer sends multiple bits of information to the printer simultaneously; parallel interface
n.
- simultaneous processing by two or more processing units; multiprocessing
- Graphs of this sort occur in the theory of parallel processing in computers.
- Pivotal's Greenplum database product uses massively parallel processing (MPP) techniques.
- The first version, VP1, was the basis of its parallel processing multimedia OS and platform, TAOS.
n.
- a pair of parallel bars set at different heights; used in women's gymnastics; uneven bars
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- Interstate 5 runs parallel to the hills on the east.
- It runs parallel to east Chao Phraya river all the route.
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- The airfield consisted of a single runway, running parallel to Wirui Beach.
- East of town, the highway turns north running parallel to the AuTrain River Basin.
- Interstate 280 lies just north of Downtown, running parallel to New Jersey Transit rail operations.
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- Running roughly parallel to Lunedale to the south is Baldersdale.
- Running roughly parallel to Baldersdale to the north is Lunedale.
- It flows westward for its entire course, roughly parallel to the North Fork.
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- This parallel universe came to be known as "Artelius".
- Gaines concludes that he has slipped into a parallel universe.
- Most of the story is set in the parallel universe affected by this history.
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- The suspension cables run parallel, in the plane of the arches.
- All gels are divided into lanes that run parallel through the gel.
- These two ranges run parallel to each other in east-west direction.
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- Fifth position should form two parallel lines with your feet.
- Pen and ink drawings often use hatching – groups of parallel lines.
- The research was proceeding along parallel lines across the Atlantic.
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- The border was then dropped about 50 miles to the 36th parallel north.
- Its totality figures at least part of the year south of the 25th parallel north.
- The −5 all-time low is uniquely mild for European locations on the 59th parallel north.
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- Some authors draw a parallel between Berkeley and Edmund Husserl.
- This is the most explicit parallel between Harry Perkins and Tony Benn.
- Several authors have drawn a parallel between FGM and cosmetic procedures.
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- These two ranges run parallel to each other in east-west direction.
- The Zamiaceae have more than one central vein, and they are parallel to each other.
- The two lines ran parallel to each other from Krauchenwies station through the royal park.
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- In 1966, the border with Jordan ran parallel to Shmuel HaNavi Street.
- The river Derwent ran parallel to City Road and formed one of the boundaries.
- The old road ran parallel and approximately 30 kilometres south of the present road.
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- They are like windows into a parallel world.
- However, unlike many games, each route in the game is a parallel world.
- This allows them both to go to a parallel world where magic is ordinary to all.
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- This area of research is known as parallel computing.
- It can be especially problematic in parallel computing.
- Security and parallel computing were cited among the future research targets.
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- It forks into Old Queen's Road which runs almost parallel with it for some part.
- A lateral twist involves the man slightly tipping the lady to twist almost parallel to the ground.
- The river flows due north, almost parallel with the Great Northern Highway and discharges into the Panton River.
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- At that exact moment, their parallel universes intersected and altered the course of the "future" forever.
- "Helter Skelter" was a storyline by Garth Ennis, featuring an invasion of Mega-City One by an alliance of villains from parallel universes.
- For example, Victor J. Stenger remarks that Murray Gell-Mann's published work explicitly rejects the existence of simultaneous parallel universes.
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- Pivotal's Greenplum database product uses massively parallel processing (MPP) techniques.
- PARATEC is designed primarily for a massively parallel computing platform, and can run on serial machines.
- The full structure with positions of all reconstructed atoms has also been confirmed by massively parallel computation.
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- It is the only land mass on the 59th parallel south.
- 6th parallel south The 6th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 6 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane.