{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈpɛrəˌlɛl" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/parallel.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/parallel.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/parallel.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/parallel.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle French parallèle, borrowed from Latin parallelus." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Equally distant from one another at all points.\nThe horizontal lines on my notebook paper are parallel.\n1911, William Robert Martin, s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Navigation\nthe instrument held with its plane roughly parallel to the equinoctial or celestial equato" }, { "mean": "Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with \"to\".\nThe two railway lines are parallel.\n1711 July 2 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele , “THURSDAY, June 21, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 99; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, , volume II, New York, N.Y.: D Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:\nWhen honour runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished." }, { "mean": "(hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.\nAntonyms: perpendicular, skew" }, { "mean": "(computing) Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.\nAntonyms: serial, sequential\nCoordinate term: concurrent\na parallel algorithm" } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "With a parallel relationship.\nThe road runs parallel to the canal." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "One of a set of parallel lines.\n1733, , An Essay on Man. , (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J Wilford, , →OCLC:Who made the spider parallels design, / Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line?" }, { "mean": "Direction conformable to that of another line.\n1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary\nlines that from their parallel decline" }, { "mean": "A line of latitude.\nThe 31st parallel passes through the center of my town." }, { "mean": "An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel." }, { "mean": "Something identical or similar in essential respects.\n1728, , “Book the Third”, in The Dunciad. 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