installation installing installment instalment | the act of installing something (as equipment), the telephone installation took only a few minutes |
facility installation | a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry, the assembly plant is an enormous facility |
military installation | any facility servicing military forces |
naval installation shore station | military installation servicing naval forces |
parallel bars bars | gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights |
parallel circuit shunt circuit | a closed circuit in which the current divides into two or more paths before recombining to complete the circuit |
parallel interface parallel port | an interface between a computer and a printer where the computer sends multiple bits of information to the printer simultaneously |
uneven parallel bars uneven bars | a pair of parallel bars set at different heights, used in women's gymnastics |
analogue analog parallel | something having the property of being analogous to something else |
Euclid's fifth axiom parallel axiom | only one line can be drawn through a point parallel to another line |
Parallel Lives | a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch, used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays |
initiation induction installation | a formal entry into an organization or position or office, his initiation into the club, he was ordered to report for induction into the army, he gave a speech as part of his installation into the hall of fame |
latitude line of latitude parallel of latitude parallel | an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator |
parallel-veined leaf | a leaf whose veins run in parallel from the stem |
installation charge | the charge for installing something |
multiprocessing parallel processing | simultaneous processing by two or more processing units |
parallel operation simultaneous operation | the simultaneous execution of two or more operations |
parallel | (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes), parallels never meet |
parallel collimate | make or place parallel to something, They paralleled the ditch to the highway |
parallel-park | park directly behind another vehicle |
parallel | be parallel to, Their roles are paralleled by ours |
twin duplicate parallel | duplicate or match, The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse |
parallel | being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting, parallel lines never converge, concentric circles are parallel, dancers in two parallel rows |
parallel | of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations, parallel processing |