parallel

Adjective

• of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations
  • parallel processing
    

• being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting
  • parallel lines never converge
    
  • concentric circles are parallel
    
  • dancers in two parallel rows
    

Noun

• (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes)
  • parallels never meet
    

• an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator

• something having the property of being analogous to something else

Verb

• duplicate or match
  • The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse
    

• make or place parallel to something
  • They paralleled the ditch to the highway
    

• be parallel to
  • Their roles are paralleled by ours
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  latitude , line of latitude , parallel of latitude , analogue , analog , twin , duplicate , collimate
• Antonyms: 
  perpendicular , oblique