(sciences, science fiction) A universe that exists separately alongside another universe, as part of a multiverse.

plural of parallel key

(music, chiefly in the plural) A key with the same tonic as another key.

A style of education in which students are taught simultaneously in two languages: a "primary" language which is dominant in the given country (in which the immersion is taking place), plus a "secondary" language which is the student's native language.

An electrical circuit that has two or more components that are connected in parallel.

A set of apparatus consisting of two horizontal bars at a small distance apart, upon which acts of swinging and holding and jumping and dips are performed. / A gymnastics event using the parallel bars.

(computing) having many individual or distributed processing units and thus able to carry out many simultaneous calculations

(law, US, antitrust law) Price fixing that occurs without direct communication between the participants, but where the participants instead intentionally follow one another in raising prices to maximize profits at the expense of competitive pricing.

A text placed alongside its translation or translations. / A text similar to one being translated.

(science fiction, sciences) A reality or world that exists simultaneously with ours, but independent of it.