Usually means: Lines that never meet, ever.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word parallel:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. parallel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. parallel: Merriam-Webster
  3. parallel, parallel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. parallel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. parallel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. parallel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Parallel, parallel: Wordnik
  8. parallel, parallel (line): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. parallel: Wiktionary
  10. parallel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. parallel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. parallel: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. parallel: Dictionary.com
  14. parallel (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. parallel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Parallel (EP), Parallel (album), Parallel (disambiguation), Parallel (geometry), Parallel (latitude), Parallel (manga), Parallel (operator), Parallel (video), Parallel, The Parallel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Parallel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. parallel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. parallel: Rhymezone
  20. parallel, parallel, parallel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. parallel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Parallel: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. Parallel: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. parallel: FreeDictionary.org
  25. parallel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. parallel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. parallel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. parallel: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. parallel: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. parallel: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. parallel: CCI Computer
  3. Parallel (latitude), parallel: Encyclopedia
  4. Computer Glossart and Terminologies (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Parallel: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Parallel: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  5. parallel, parallel, parallel: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parallel: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. parallel: Electronics
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  6. Parallel: Dictionary of Military Architecture

(Note: See paralleled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Equally distant from one another at all points.
adjective:  Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
adjective:  (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.
adjective:  (computing) Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.
adjective:  (figuratively) Analogous, similar, comparable.
adjective:  (science fiction, of realities, dimensions, timelines, etc.) Coexisting but normally not interacting with the regular reality.
adverb:  With a parallel relationship.
noun:  One of a set of parallel lines.
noun:  Direction conformable to that of another line.
noun:  (geography) A line of latitude.
noun:  An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
noun:  Something identical or similar in essential respects.
noun:  A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.
noun:  (military) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.
noun:  (printing) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines, used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.
verb:  To construct or place something parallel to something else.
verb:  Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
verb:  Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
verb:  To compare or liken something to something else.
verb:  To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
verb:  To equal; to match; to correspond to.
verb:  To produce or adduce as a parallel.

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