Selfsame and Parallel

adjective

• Being the exact same one; not any other:.
  • usage: "this is the identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to see"
  • synonyms: identical, very

noun

• Something having the property of being analogous to something else.
  • synonyms: analogue, analog
• An imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator.
  • synonyms: latitude, line of latitude, parallel of latitude
• Mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes. ()
  • usage: "parallels never meet"

verb

• Be parallel to.
  • usage: "Their roles are paralleled by ours"
• Make or place parallel to something.
  • usage: "They paralleled the ditch to the highway"
  • synonyms: collimate
• Duplicate or match.
  • usage: "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse"
  • synonyms: twin, duplicate

adjective

• Being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting.
  • usage: "parallel lines never converge"; "concentric circles are parallel"; "dancers in two parallel rows"
• Of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations.
  • usage: "parallel processing"

• (n.) That arrangement of an electrical system in which all positive poles, electrodes, terminals, etc., are joined to one conductor, and all negative poles, etc., to another conductor; -- called also multiple. Opposed to series.
• (v.t.) To equal; to match; to correspond to.
• (n.) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines (thus, ) used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.
• (n.) A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc.
• (v.t.) To produce or adduce as a parallel.
• (v.i.) To be parallel; to correspond; to be like.
• (a.) Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage.
• (n.) Direction conformable to that of another line,.
• (n.) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.
• (a.) Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.
• (n.) A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope.
• (v.t.) Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim or the like.
• (n.) Anything equal to or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart.
• (n.) Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity.
• (a.) Having the same direction or tendency; running side by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; -- used with to and with.
• (v.t.) To place or set so as to be parallel; to place so as to be parallel to or to conform in direction with, something else.
• (n.) One of the imaginary circles on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, marking the latitude; also, the corresponding line on a globe or map.