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pe ruh lel

  • n  something having the property of being analogous to something else
  • n  an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
  • n  (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes)
    parallels never meet
  • v  be parallel to
    Their roles are paralleled by ours
  • v  make or place parallel to something
    They paralleled the ditch to the highway
  • v  duplicate or match
  • a  being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting
    parallel lines never converge
    concentric circles are parallel
    dancers in two parallel rows
  • s  of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations
    parallel processing

  • A massively parallel processor is a collection of computers, or central processing units, linked together.
  • When Danny Hillis built his parallel computer six years ago, the industry largely dismissed the machine as too radical.
  • The 38th parallel in Korea has become almost as famous as another imaginary line, the equator.
News & Articles

  • It's different this year for South Spencer in state title game
    While there is one obvious parallel to 2011, there are distinct differences in South Spencer’s run to the Class 2A state baseball championship game for the second time in three years.
    June 15, 2013 - Evansville Courier & Press
  • Garden Club ‘mini flower show’ winners
    Winners of the Mini Flower Show held by members of The Garden Club of Springfield at their monthly meeting are: category “Flowering Branch,” first place -- Sandra Kapczynski; category “Parallel Design,” first-place -- Beverly Kostek, second place -- Sue Clendenin, third place -- Marion Nelson. The Garden Club of Springfield is one of five National Garden Clubs member clubs that are planning A ...
    June 15, 2013 - Springfield Press
  • Cook's Corner: Divine Chicken Divan
    Q: At least 30 years ago, there was a wonderful restaurant parallel to the West Side Highway in Greenwich Village in New York City. It was called Inca and they served Chicken Divan over asparagus.
    June 13, 2013 - The St. Augustine Record
Quotes

  • Peter Hoekstra in USA Today
    We are stunned that the Justice Department would move to block our investigation,Reyes and Hoekstra said. "Parallel investigations occur all of the time, and there is no basis upon which the Attorney General can stand in the way of our...
  • Yang Yong-eun in The Canberra Times
    I hope this win (creates) something quite parallel in Korea as well as Asia so that all the young golfers build their dreams and expand their horizons,Yang said.
  • Ronald Rivest in MSNBC
    I'm trying to be more careful than I have been in the past about the titles of movies that I choose to be in. It's funny -- I kind of noticed something a couple years ago that there seemed to be this strange parallel to the movies I was doing and... Jennifer Aniston http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Aniston&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNExtAAZwEd49UqndmiFDNA4QOvYzg FOXNews http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526356,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEVEtX-arejpV102hsatK2jd8l81Q Jun 15, 2009 72157 96525 parallelize We were able to parallelize our application quickly and easily," said MIT Professor Ron Rivest, founder of RSA Data Security. "And, our new MD6 cryptographic hash algorithm exhibited excellent performance and scaling. For the time being, the...

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