a.

1. 平行的，同方向的[（+to/with）]
   These two lines are parallel.

   這兩條線平行。

2. 相同的；類似的[（+to）]
   She and her friends have parallel likes and dislikes.

   她和她的朋友喜惡相同。

3. 【電】並聯的

n.

1. 平行線；平行面[C][（+to/with）]
   The parallels seem to come together in the distance.

   平行線在遠處看上去似交合在一起。

2. 類似的人（或事物），可相比擬的人（或事物）[C][（+to/with）]
   You do not have to go far to find a living parallel for these prehistoric organisms.

   你不必走遠就可以找到與這些史前有機體相類似的生物。

3. 相似處[C][（+between/with）]
   There are curious parallels between medicine and law.

   在醫學和法律之間有著奇特的相似之處。

4. 比較[C][（+between）]
   The historian draws a parallel between Washington and Lincoln.

   這位歷史學家將華盛頓和林肯作了比較。

5. 緯線；緯圈[C]
6. 【電】並聯[U]
   The two generators operate in parallel.

   這兩臺發電機並聯發電。

vt.

1. 使成平行；與……平行
   The street paralleled the railroad.

   那條街與鐵路平行。

2. 比較[（+with）]
   They paralleled his life with those of the saints.

   他們將他的生活與聖人的生活相比。

3. 與……相似，比得上
   Your story closely parallels what he told me.

   你的說法跟他告訴我的情況極為相似。

adj.

1. (of lines, planes, or surfaces) side by side and having the same distance continuously between them.
2. occurring or existing at the same time or in a similar way; corresponding.
   ▸Computing  involving the simultaneous performance of operations.
3. of or denoting electrical components connected in parallel.

n.

1. a person or thing that is similar or analogous to another.
   ▸a similarity or comparison.
2. (also parallel of latitude) each of the imaginary parallel circles of constant latitude on the earth's surface.
3. Printing  two parallel lines (||) as a reference mark.

v.

1. run or lie parallel to.
2. be similar or corresponding to.