parallel

1. 1.

   be parallel to

   “Their roles are paralleled by ours”

   Broadermatch
2. 2.

   make or place parallel to something

   “They paralleled the ditch to the highway”

   Synonymscollimate

   Broaderchange
3. 3.

   duplicate or match

   “The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse”

   Synonymstwinduplicate

   Broadermatch

1. 1.

   being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting

   “parallel lines never converge”

   “concentric circles are parallel”

   “dancers in two parallel rows”

   Antonymsperpendicularoblique

   Similarantiparallelcollateralnonconvergent
2. 2.

   of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations

   “parallel processing”

   Similarsynchronous

   computer science

Other forms of parallel

plural

parallels·

past tense or participle

parallelled

present participle

parallelling

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about parallel

What does parallel mean?

parallel means "something having the property of being analogous to something else". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in parallel?

parallel has 3 syllables: par-al-lel. The stress falls on "par". In IPA it is /ˈpɛɹəˌlɛl/.

What is another word for parallel?

Close synonyms include analogue, analog, latitude, line of latitude, parallel of latitude. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of parallel?

The recorded antonyms are perpendicular, oblique.

Is parallel a common word?

parallel is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with parallel?

1 word rhymes with parallel. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.