The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parallel \Par"al*lel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paralleled; p. pr. & vb. n. Paralleling.]
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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.
The needle . . . doth parallel and place itself upon the true meridian.
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Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like.
His life is paralleled Even with the stroke and line of his great justice.
--Shak. To equal; to match; to correspond to.
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To produce or adduce as a parallel. [R.]
--Locke.My young remembrance can not parallel A fellow to it.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of parallel English)
Usage examples of "paralleling".
And for the first time I swam with him, my small breaststrokes paralleling his long ones.
There was no time problem on this occasion, and they set out northwest, paralleling the shore at a distance of a few rods, with Hay and Colby rowing.
Not less than three hundred feet long and half that in depth, from end to end of it ran two huge semi-circular tables, paralleling each other, divided by a wide aisle, and heaped with flowers, with fruits, with viands unknown to me, and glittering with crystal flagons, beakers, goblets of as many hues as the blooms.
Taking advantage of the twilight, he pulled off the highway and headed straight across an open area of desert, paralleling a series of ten-foot-deep arroyos.
The submarine was on a course exactly paralleling that of the San Andreas and could well have been for many hours.
Wrecking crews were tearing down bungalows on the street paralleling Beachwood, the workers shouting about gas leaking from pipes.
This side of the park was more heavily wooded and had no road or bicycle path, just a little footpath paralleling the bank.
Diana took the wheel and drove them northeast, paralleling the canyon rim on a road that ran next to the massive concrete foundation for the canyon's tenting.
As soon as he had crossed the rickety bridge and into shattered Dillsboro he turned right, paralleling the Tuckasegee.
The force consisted of what Rourke estimated as close to three hundred and fifty men, traveling in trucks and jeeps in a ragged wedge formation along the road, outriders on dirt bikes paralleling their movements and working back and forth, up and down the convoy line like herders moving cattle or sheep.
We drove for hours, finally encountering the black road, paralleling it for a time, then heading off in another direction.
He made many loops, paralleling and crossing his own tracks until the pattern was a confused mess with many false start tracks, ranging a couple of kilometers into the desert.
Hofschulte asked, and Griggs chuckled sourly at the proof that her thoughts were paralleling his own.
Plenty of small forts and watchtowers, in a line roughly paralleling Antonine's Wall and the Gask Ridge, with another line of them down along Hadrian's Wall in the border counties, but nothing like a villa with murals of this quality.
Put quarks together in their many attributes and you can account for (maybe) all those 200-odd hadrons (and have a system paralleling the leptons or light particles as a bonus).