Noun

• S: (n) analogue, analog, parallel (something having the property of being analogous to something else)
• S: (n) latitude, line of latitude, parallel of latitude, parallel (an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator)
• S: (n) parallel ((mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes)) "parallels never meet"
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• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) figure (a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape)

Verb

• S: (v) parallel (be parallel to) "Their roles are paralleled by ours"
• S: (v) parallel, collimate (make or place parallel to something) "They paralleled the ditch to the highway"
• S: (v) twin, duplicate, parallel (duplicate or match) "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse"

Adjective

• S: (adj) parallel (being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting) "parallel lines never converge"; "concentric circles are parallel"; "dancers in two parallel rows"
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• W: (adj) perpendicular [Opposed to: parallel] (intersecting at or forming right angles) "the axes are perpendicular to each other"
• W: (adj) oblique [Opposed to: parallel] (slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled) "the oblique rays of the winter sun"; "acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles"; "the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base"
• S: (adj) parallel (of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations) "parallel processing"