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Parallel is a synonym of comparable.


As adjectives the difference between parallel and comparable

is that parallel is equally distant from one another at all points while comparable is able to be compared (to).

As nouns the difference between parallel and comparable

is that parallel is one of a set of parallel lines while comparable is something suitable for comparison.

As an adverb parallel

is with a parallel relationship.

As a verb parallel

is to construct or place something parallel to something else.

parallel

English

(wikipedia parallel)

Adjective

(-)
  • Equally distant from one another at all points.
    • The horizontal lines on my notebook paper are parallel .
  • * Hakluyt
    • revolutions parallel to the equinoctial
  • Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
    • The railway line runs parallel to the road.
    The two railway lines are parallel .
  • * Addison
    • When honour runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished.
  • (hyperbolic geometry) said of a pair of lines:'' that they either do not intersect or they coincide Jos Leys — ''The hyperbolic chamber (paragraph 8)
  • (computing) Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time
    • a parallel algorithm

    Antonyms

    * perpendicular, skew, serial

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • With a parallel relationship.
    • The road runs parallel with the canal.

    Related terms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of a set of parallel lines.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Who made the spider parallels design, / Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line?
  • Direction conformable to that of another line.
  • * Garth
    • lines that from their parallel decline
  • A line of latitude.
    • The 31st parallel passes through the center of my town.
  • An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
  • Something identical or similar in essential respects.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • None but thyself can be thy parallel .
  • A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.
    • Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope
  • (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.
  • (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.

    • Antonyms

    * perpendicular, skew (?)

    Verb

  • To construct or place something parallel to something else.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • The needle doth parallel and place itself upon the true meridian.
  • Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
  • Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
  • To compare or liken something to something else.
  • To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
  • * Shakespeare
    • His life is parallelled / Even with the stroke and line of his great justice.
  • To equal; to match; to correspond to.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • To produce or adduce as a parallel.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My young remembrance cannot parallel / A fellow to it.
    (John Locke)

    Derived terms

    * embarrassingly parallel * forty-ninth parallel * parallel algorithm * parallel circuit * parallel computing * parallelism * parallelogram * parallel universe * unparalleled

    See also

    * sequential

    References

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    comparable

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Able to be compared (to).
  • Similar (to); like.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Philip J. Bushnell
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance , passage=Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
  • (mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.
  • (grammar) Said of an adjective that has a comparative and superlative form.

    • Related terms

    * incomparable * comparability * comparableness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something suitable for comparison.
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 2, Fred A. Bernstein, Catskill Home Prices: How Low Will They Go?, New York Times citation
    • , passage=And the appraiser said he couldn't come up with comparables , because there hadn't been any sales nearby in several months. }} ----