Source : WordNet®
parallel
v 1: be parallel to; "Their roles are paralleled by ours"
2: make or place parallel to something; "They paralleled the
ditch to the highway" [syn: {collimate}]
3: duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face
and chest in reverse" [syn: {twin}, {duplicate}]
[also: {parallelling}, {parallelled}]
parallel
n 1: something having the property of being analogous to
something else [syn: {analogue}, {analog}]
2: an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
[syn: {latitude}, {line of latitude}, {parallel of
latitude}]
[also: {parallelling}, {parallelled}]
parallel
adj 1: being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting; "parallel
lines never converge"; "concentric circles are
parallel"; "dancers in two parallel rows" [ant: {perpendicular},
{oblique}]
2: of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple
operations; "parallel processing"
[also: {parallelling}, {parallelled}]
parallelled
See {parallel}