parallel

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Equally distant from one another at all points.

   “The horizontal lines on my notebook paper are parallel.”

2. sıfat Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".

   “The two railway lines are parallel.”

3. sıfat Either not intersecting, or coinciding.
4. sıfat Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.

   “a parallel algorithm”

5. sıfat Analogous, similar, comparable.

   “the parallel lives of two citizens”

6. sıfat Coexisting but normally not interacting with the regular reality.

   “parallel universe”

7. zarf With a parallel relationship.

   “The road runs parallel to the canal.”

8. isim One of a set of parallel lines.

   “Who made the spider parallels design, / Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line?”

9. isim Direction conformable to that of another line.

   “lines that from their parallel decline”

10. isim A line of latitude.

    “The 31st parallel passes through the center of my town.”

11. isim An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
12. isim Something identical or similar in essential respects.

    “None but thyself can be thy parallel.”

13. isim A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.

    “Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope”

14. isim 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.
15. isim 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.
16. fiil To construct or place something parallel to something else.

    “The needle […] doth parallel and place itself upon the true meridian.”

17. fiil Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.

    “Archaic covered bridges lingered fearsomely out of the past in pockets of the hills, and the half-abandoned railway track paralleling the river seemed to exhale a nebulously visible air of desolation.”

18. fiil Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
19. fiil To compare or liken something to something else.

    “Although its spokesmen do not hesitate to parallel their oppression to that of blacks, the gay male community has chosen to ignore the voices of black gay men.”

20. fiil To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.

    “[H]is life is paralel’d / Euen with the ſtroke and line of his great Iuſtice: […]”

21. fiil To equal; to match; to correspond to.

    “He will ſteale ſir an Egge out of a Cloiſter: for rapes and rauiſhments he paralels Neſſus.”

22. fiil To produce or adduce as a parallel.

    “Macb[eth]. ’Twas a rough Night. / Lenox. My young remembrance cannot paralell / A fellow to it.”