parallel
pronunciation
How to pronounce parallel in British English:
UK [ˈpærəlel]
How to pronounce parallel in American English:
US [ˈpærəlel]
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- Noun:
- something having the property of being analogous to something else
- an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
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- Verb:
- be parallel to
- make or place parallel to something
- duplicate or match
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- Adjective:
- being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting
- of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations
Word Origin
- parallel
- parallel: [16] Etymologically, parallel simply means ‘beside each other’. It comes via French parallèle and Latin parallēlus from Greek parállēlos. This was a compound formed from pará ‘beside’ and allélōn ‘each other’, a derivative of állos ‘other’ (to which English else is distantly related).=> else
- parallel (adj.)
- 1540s, from Middle French parallèle (16c.) and directly from Latin parallelus, from Greek parallelos "parallel," from para allelois "beside one another," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + allelois "each other," from allos "other" (see alias (adv.)). As a noun from 1550s. Parallel bars as gymnastics apparatus are recorded from 1868.
- parallel (v.)
- 1590s, from parallel (n.).
Synonym
similitude equalization parity likeness proportion equipoise analogy similarity connaturalness kinship coequality equality correlation symmetry parallelity resemblance balance par correspondence affinity
Example
- 1. How could this parallel universe of speculation affect her ?
- 2. Parallel teams work on each new generation of products .
- 3. You could make a parallel argument for fiscal policy .
- 4. The authorities have said for some years that iran should have a parallel network which would conform to islamic values and provide " appropriate " services .
- 5. Not everyone accepts the japanese parallel .