- two or more lines that are parallel to each other are the same distance apart at every point
- parallel lines
- parallel to/with something The road and the canal are parallel to each other.
Extra ExamplesTopics Colours and Shapesb2, Maths and measurementb2- The lane is roughly parallel to the main road.
- The road runs parallel with the coast.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- run
- exactly
- almost
- nearly
- …
- to
- with
- very similar or taking place at the same time
- parallel trends
- Though still a committed painter, in 1978 she launched a parallel career as a photographer.
- Two poisonings have been reported recently in London and now there has been a parallel case in the Netherlands.
- (computing) involving several computer operations at the same time
- parallel processing
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French parallèle, via Latin from Greek parallēlos, from para- ‘alongside’ + allēlos ‘one another’.
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