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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • computing Describing the processing of multiple tasks at the same time
  • Of two or more (straight) lines, (flat) surfaces etc: Equally distant from one another at all points.
  • '''parallel to''': Of one thing, relative to another: Equally distant from at all points.

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Adverb:

  • With a parallel relationship

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Noun:

  • A line of latitude.
  • An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel
  • One of a set of parallel lines.

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Verb:

  • Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
  • Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
  • To compare or liken something to something else.
  • To construct something parallel to something else.

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