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How to pronounce parallel in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms analog, analogue
Type of similarity
Has types echo
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Synonyms duplicate, twin
Type of fit, agree, check, correspond, gibe, jibe, match, tally
Type Words
Synonyms latitude, line of latitude, parallel of latitude
Type of line
Has types polar circle, horse latitude, tropic
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Synonyms collimate
Type of alter, modify, change


They paralleled the ditch to the highway.
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parallel lines never converge.
concentric circles are parallel.
dancers in two parallel rows.
Type Words
Type of gibe, fit, agree, tally, match, jibe, check, correspond


Their roles are paralleled by ours.
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Type of figure


parallels never meet.
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parallel processing.

Examples of parallel

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So the parallel between the two districts, obviously, was very attractive to me.
From the dailyherald.com
Parallel evolution can achieve similar levels of complexity in different groups.
From the newscientist.com
Yet there is one parallel that haunts those involved in Britain's Libyan effort.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Lay the ropes out vertically, parallel to each other and close but not touching.
From the sacbee.com
The road runs parallel to Highway 2 because it was the old 2, laid in the 1930s.
From the desmoinesregister.com
Parallel declines in species and genetic diversity in tropical forest fragments.
From the sciencedaily.com
Operating in parallel, they can solve differential equations at very high speed.
From the newscientist.com
One could create a parallel list of the innovator's complaints about management.
From the bloomberg.com
There is a parallel case in New Jersey federal court that raises similar issues.
From the delawareonline.com
More examples
  • Be parallel to; "Their roles are paralleled by ours"
  • Being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting; "parallel lines never converge"; "concentric circles are parallel"; "dancers in two parallel rows"
  • Analogue: something having the property of being analogous to something else
  • Of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations; "parallel processing"
  • Latitude: an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
  • Twin: duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse"
  • A parallel of a curve is the envelope of a family of congruent circles centered on the curve. It generalises the concept of parallel lines. It can also be defined as a curve whose points are at a fixed normal distance of a given curve.
  • Components of an electrical circuit or electronic circuit can be connected in many different ways. The two simplest of these are called series and parallel and occur very frequently. ...
  • Parallelism is a term in geometry and in everyday life that refers to a property in Euclidean space of two or more lines or planes, or a combination of these. The existence and properties of parallel lines are the basis of Euclid's parallel postulate. ...