Parallel vs Continuous - What's the difference?
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Equally distant from one another at all points.
* Hakluyt
Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
* Addison
(hyperbolic geometry) said of a pair of lines:'' that they either do not intersect or they coincide
(computing) Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time
One of a set of parallel lines.
* Alexander Pope
Direction conformable to that of another line.
* Garth
A line of latitude.
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
A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.
(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.
To construct or place something parallel to something else.
* Sir Thomas Browne
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
To equal; to match; to correspond to.
To produce or adduce as a parallel.
* Shakespeare
Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.
* 1847 , , Ticknor and Fields (1854), page 90:
Without intervening space; continued; protracted; extended.
(botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
(analysis, of a function) Such that, for every x'' in the domain, for each small open interval ''D'' about ''f''(''x''), there's an interval containing ''x'' whose image is in ''D .
(mathematics, more generally, of a function) Such that each open set in the range has an open preimage.
(grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.
As adjectives the difference between parallel and continuous
is that parallel is equally distant from one another at all points while continuous is without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.As an adverb parallel
is with a parallel relationship.As a noun parallel
is one of a set of parallel lines.As a verb parallel
is to construct or place something parallel to something else.parallel
English
(wikipedia parallel)Adjective
(-)- The horizontal lines on my notebook paper are parallel .
- revolutions parallel to the equinoctial
- The railway line runs parallel to the road.
- The two railway lines are parallel .
- When honour runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished.
Jos Leys — ''The hyperbolic chamber(paragraph 8)
- a parallel algorithm
Antonyms
* perpendicular, skew, serialNoun
(en noun)- Who made the spider parallels design, / Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line?
- lines that from their parallel decline
- The 31st parallel passes through the center of my town.
- None but thyself can be thy parallel .
- Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope
Antonyms
* perpendicular, skew (?)Verb
- The needle doth parallel and place itself upon the true meridian.
- His life is parallelled / Even with the stroke and line of his great justice.
- (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 * unparalleledSee also
* sequentialReferences
continuous
English
Adjective
(-)- a continuous current of electricity
- he can hear its continuous murmur
- a continuous line of railroad
- Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.