parallel

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Simply place the LED inline or in parallel to the camera and you are done.

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Quick take

something having the property of being analogous to something else

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of parallel gathered in one view.

noun

something having the property of being analogous to something else

noun

an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for parallel.

noun

something having the property of being analogous to something else

noun

an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator

noun

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

verb

be parallel to; "Their roles are paralleled by ours"

verb

make or place parallel to something; "They paralleled the ditch to the highway"

verb

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

adjective

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

adjective

of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations; "parallel processing"

Example sentences

Simply place the LED inline or in parallel to the camera and you are done.

That this issue is separate from and parallel to burnout!

It is also complicated by other changes that are happening in parallel and which are caught up in it.

Being near the 40th parallel, it rarely activates from April to October.

But last batch was the first time we did parallel interview tracks at all, and we needed to test whether it worked for 2 before we went to 3.

Not only are they trying to put together a parallel, secure browser engine from the ground up, but they even created Rust to do so.

A consumer would have attached a Y-splitter in front of his existing cable box and then added this new box in parallel.

It's not well known that searching for many keys in parallel amortizes well -- it's much cheaper than finding all the keys individually.

The training document reviewed by Reuters refers to this process as "parallel construction.

It's a patent for a specific set of steps to execute vector code in loops in parallel, which means the HN title is needlessly linkbaity.

So the way I look at this critique is that most people in the US are running a parallel experiment with their bodies, only instead of the input being Soylent, it's garbage like fast food.

Nelson came from a movie acting/storywriting/literary background, and this allowed him to establish parallels and formulate ideas that no one at the time could have done.

Let's just say that F peers into a parallel universe in which our team has already implemented a software system line-for-line identical to S, and it just observes how much time and money were actually consumed in that universe.

Or, if removing the onions was critically important, why you didn't run a small set of onion-free test batches on a parallel process line and then put those batches through lots of tests, both in the lab and in the field, before making the change?I've worked as a semiconductor engineer, specifically in charge of diagnosing problems that arose in the field, so believe me when I tell you that I've seen "simple", "well understood" little tweaks in a semiconductor processing recipe cost companies millions of dollars and one hell of a lot of stress.