Word Finder - parallel

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One of a set of parallel lines.

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Direction conformable to that of another line.

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A line of latitude.

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The 31st parallel passes through the center of my town.

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An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.

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Something identical or similar in essential respects.

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A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.

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Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope

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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.

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A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines, used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.

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To construct or place something parallel to something else.

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Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.

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Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.

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To compare or liken something to something else.

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To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.

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To equal; to match; to correspond to.

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To produce or adduce as a parallel.

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Equally distant from one another at all points.

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The horizontal lines on my notebook paper are parallel.

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Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".

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The two railway lines are parallel.

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(hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.

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Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.

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a parallel algorithm

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With a parallel relationship.

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The road runs parallel to the canal.

It runs parallel to the river.

They walked parallel to an abandoned highway for a couple of hours until they reached the second fed site.

The farm of today already has tractors that use GPS to make perfectly parallel rows with great precision.

The parallel, yellow lines in the center of this stretch of road seemed to go on forever.

The road ran parallel to the highway, with the Uncompahgre River separating the unpaved road from the main thoroughfare to the east.

She trotted until she was parallel to the lights then plunged into the deep snow, forcing her way into the forest.

Whatever may be the shape or size of the particles, there is no scattered light in a direction parallel to the primary electric displacements.

The double webs composing the sides of the fixed square shall be strictly parallel, and shall form a true square of exactly ten revolutions of the screw on the side.

Their progress and success are without parallel.

Indeed, its progress there, during these twenty years, is probably without parallel in the history of any other country.

It is cut up into strips by comparatively low parallel.

The long axis of the wings, when at rest, lies parallel to the body axis.

The northern boundary, after an arbitrary beginning, finds a natural extension along the Great Lakes, and thence continues along the 49th parallel of north latitude to the Pacific (see Bulletin 171, U.S. Geological Survey).

In some Australian acacias, and in some species of Oxalis and Bupleurum, the petiole is flattened in a vertical direction, the vascular bundles separating immediately after quitting the stem and running nearly parallel from base to apex.

But in such cases a series of secondary spirals or parastichies are seen running parallel with each other both right and left, which to a certain FIG.

The magnitude of the stress per unit area parallel to the direction of flow is evidently proportional to the velocity gradient, or the rate of change of velocity per cm.

To connect the idea of parallel lines to geography, the teacher us taught about latitude and longitude.

The step from Rienzi to Der fliegende Hollander is without parallel in the history of music, and would be inexplicable if Rienzi contained nothing good and if Der fliegende Hollander did not contain many reminiscences of the decline of Italian opera; but it is noticeable that in this case the lapses into vulgar music have a distinct dramatic value.

And as the twofold musical and dramatic achievement of one mind, it already places Wagner beyond parallel in the history of art.

It matters little that Parsifal requires two nameless attendant characters in a long opening scene, for the sole purpose of telling the antecedents of the story, when a situation is thereby revealed which for subtlety and power has hardly a parallel since Greek tragedy.

It is no exaggeration to say that a parallel condition in literature would be produced by a strong public opinion to the effect that any Enelish style was hopelessly out of date unless it consisted exclusively of the most difficult types of phrase to be found in the works of Browning and Meredith.

Dicaearcus of Messana in Sicily, a pupil of Aristotle (326-296 B.C.), is the author of a topographical account of Hellas, with maps, of which only fragments are preserved; he is credited with having estimated the size of the earth, and, as far as known he was the first to draw a parallel across a map. 4 This parallel, or dividing line, called diaphragm (partition) by a commentator, extended due east from the Pillars of Hercules, through the Mediterranean, and along the Taurus and Imaus (Himalaya) to the eastern ocean.

In his text Eratosthenes ignored the popular division of the world into Europe, Asia and Libya, and substituted for it a northern and southern division, divided by the parallel of Rhodes, each of which he subdivided into sphragides or plinthia - seals or plinths.

Parallels and meridians were represented by straight lines intersecting each other at right angles, the relative proportions between degrees of longitude and latitude being retained only along the parallel of Rhodes.

The correct relations in the length of degrees of latitude and longitude are maintained in the first case along the latitude of Thule and the equator, in the second along the parallel of Agisymba, the equator and the parallels of Meroe, Syene and Thule.

Blocks of dressed stone overgrown by grass lie in regular formation; a series of parallel revetment walls on hills commanding passes exist, as do relics of ancient water-tanks.

South of Berbera are two ranges nearly parallel with the coast.

To the above we have a good parallel in the Book of Daniel; for the variations of its two chief Greek Versions - that of the Septuagint and of Theodotion - go back to variations in the Semitic.

Parallel with this great production of learned and imaginative works, Dahn published some twenty small volumes of poetry.

And a parallel change is found in the practical policy of the state.

The great motor of the parallel effort in England was the Christian spirit; in France it was the enthusiasm of humanity which was associated with the revolutionary movement.

Cain's subsequent founding of a city finds a parallel in the legend of the origin of Rome through the swarms of outlaws and broken men of all kinds whom Romulus attracted thither.

The list of Cain's descendants reflects the old view of the beginnings of civilization; it is thrown into the form of a genealogy and is parallel to Gen.

In 1907 active preliminary work was begun on the Louisiana section of a great interstate inland waterway projected by the national government between the Mississippi and Rio Grande rivers, almost parallel to the Gulf Coast and running through the rice and truck-farm districts from the Teche to the Mermenton river (92 m.).

It is then possible to define by a parallel elaboration what is meant by classes of classes, classes of relations, relations between classes, and so on.

There are numerous high valleys shut in among the mountains of this range; the most noteworthy being the plain of Livno, which lies parallel to the Dalmatian border, at a height of 500 ft.

They descend in parallel ridges of grey Karst limestone, south-westwards to the sea; their last summits reappear in the multitude of rocky islands along the Dalmatian littoral.

In 1893 the bones of a cave-bear (Ursus spelaeus) were taken from a cavern of the Bjelasnica range, in Herzegovina, a discovery without parallel in the Balkan Peninsula.

On the 7th of October the Grande Armee lay in three parallel columns along the roads leading over the mountains to Hof, Schleiz and Kronach; on the right lay the IV.

Meanwhile the Russians and Prussians had concentrated all available men and were moving on an almost parallel line, but somewhat to the south of the direction taken by the French.

Blucher followed by parallel and inferior roads on their northern flank, but Schwarzenberg knowing that the Bavarians also had forsaken the emperor and were marching under Wrede, 50,000 strong, to intercept his retreat, followed in a most leisurely fashion.

The Anti-Atlas or Jebel Saghru, also known as the Lesser Atlas, running parallel to and south of the central range, is one of the least elevated chains in the system, having a mean altitude of not more than 5000 ft., although some peaks and even passes exceed 6000 ft.

On the 64th parallel the mean annual temperature at an elevation of 6560 ft.

The goal, which is well preserved at the upper end, is similar to that at Olympia; it consists of a sill of stone sunk level with the ground, with parallel grooves for the feet of the runners at starting, and sockets to hold the posts that separated the spaces assigned to the various competitors, and served as guides to them in running.

They consist of a long rectangular building, with a proscenium or column front which almost forms a tangent to the circle of the orchestra; at the middle and at either end of this proscenium are doors leading into the orchestra, those at the end set in projecting wings; the top of the proscenium is approached by a ramp, of which the lower part is still preserved, running parallel to the parodi, but sloping up as they slope down.

Some interesting manoeuvres now took place, Wellington moving parallel and close to Marmont, but more to the north, making for the fords of Aldea Lengua and Santa Marta on the Tormes nearer to Salamanca, and being under the belief that the Spaniards held the castle and ford at Alba on that river.

It runs almost parallel to the western shore of the Caspian, and west of Astara is only io or 12 m.

The Elburz then splits into three principal ranges running parallel to one another and connected at many places by secondary ranges and spurs.

Roughly speaking, the river may be said so far to run parallel to the main chain of the Himalaya at a distance of Too m.

In such cases the molten rock cannot have been homogeneous, and as it flowed along the ground the different portions of it were drawn out into long parallel streaks.