Results for parallel

Definition of parallel:

• part of speech: (verb transitive)

  To correspond to.

• part of speech: (verb)

  To place or set so as to be parallel; to equal; to resemble; to compare.

• part of speech: (adjective)

  Equally distant at every point; similar in direction or aim.

• part of speech: (adjective)

  Lying side by side, and having always an equal distance from one another; having the same direction; equal in all essential points; like; similar.

• part of speech: (noun)

  A line equidistant at every point from another; likeness.

• part of speech: (noun)

  A line which is equidistant from another line throughout its whole length; a line on the globe marking latitude; anything equal to another in all essentia] particulars; resemblance; a comparison made.