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Phrases 56
- parallel portA physical interface capable of transmitting multiple bits of data simultaneously.
- parallel computingA type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously.
- parallel universeA universe that exists separately alongside another universe, as part of a multiverse.
- parallel processingAlternative form of parallel computing: A type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously.
- parallel barsA set of apparatus consisting of two horizontal bars at a small distance apart, upon which acts of swinging and holding and jumping and dips are performed.
- parallel parkingThe action of parking a vehicle with its side parallel to the curb or the side of the road and facing in the direction of the traffic in the adjacent lane.
- parallel importA legitimate product imported from another country without the permission of the intellectual property owner.
- parallel parkTo park a vehicle with side parallel to the curb or the side of the road in line with other parked vehicles.
- parallel circuitAn electrical circuit that has two or more components that are connected in parallel.
- parallel textA text placed alongside its translation or translations. Sometimes called a side-by-side translation.
- embarrassingly parallelVery easy to separate into a number of parallel tasks.
- parallel playA form of play involving two or more people doing the same play activity in the same location but without paying attention to one another.
- parallel cousinThe child of one's father's brother or of one's mother's sister; a cousin related via same-gender siblings rather than opposite-gender ones (the latter being a cross-cousin).
- parallel postulateAn axiom in Euclidean geometry: given a straight line L and a point p not on L, there exists exactly one straight line parallel to L that passes through p; a variant of this axiom, such that the number of lines parallel to L that pass …
- parallel keyA key with the same tonic as another key.
- parallel motionAny linkage by which circular motion may be changed into motion in a straight line.
- parallel societyAn ethnic or religious minority group that organizes itself so as to reduce or minimize contact with the majority society into which it immigrated.
- parallel thinkingA thinking process where focus is split in specific directions, aiming to avoid adversarial debates based on proof and disproof.
- parallel transportA way of transporting geometrical data along smooth curves in a manifold.
- parallel worldA reality or world that exists simultaneously with ours, but independent of it.
- parallel axis theoremA theorem that states the moment of inertia of a rigid body about any axis is equal to its moment of inertia about a parallel axis through its center of mass plus the product of the mass of the body and the square of the distance between …
- parallel fifthsProgressions in which the interval of a perfect fifth is followed by a different perfect fifth between the same two musical parts.
- parallel compressionA dynamic range compression technique used in sound recording and mixing, achieved by mixing an unprocessed "dry" or lightly compressed signal with a heavily compressed version of the same signal.
- parallel worldsplural of parallel world: A reality or world that exists simultaneously with ours, but independent of it.
- plane-parallelDescribing two planes that do not intersect
Compound words 33
- parallelismThe state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
- unparallelNot parallel
- hyperparallelIn hyperbolic geometry, lines that do not intersect in a common point in the plane and do not intersect at a common limit point at infinity, but rather, occur outside the limit set by parallel lines which intersect at infinity.
- biparallelBeing or relating to a network motif in which an output links to two inputs, each of which act as outputs to the same, fourth input.
- parallelableCapable of being paralleled, or equalled.
- parallelisticOf the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism.
- parallelityThe condition of being parallel; parallelism.
- parallelnessThe quality of being parallel.
- autoparallelA curve having a parallel tangent vector field.
- frontoparallelparallel, and viewed from the front