virtual reality | a hypothetical three-dimensional visual world created by a computer, user wears special goggles and fiber optic gloves etc., and can enter and move about in this world and interact with objects as if inside it |
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 |
reality | the quality possessed by something that is real |
world reality | all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you, his world was shattered, we live in different worlds, for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were |
reality principle | (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the ego, the principle that as a child grows it becomes aware of the real environment and the need to accommodate to it |
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 |
reality check | an occasion on which one is reminded of the nature of things in the real world, this program is intended as a reality check for CEOs, after all those elaborate productions, I felt in need of a reality check |
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 |
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 |
reality realness realism | the state of being actual or real, the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him |
reality | the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be, businessmen have to face harsh realities |
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 |
actually in reality | used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated, surprisingly, you may actually be doing the right thing by walking out, she actually spoke Latin, they thought they made the rules but in reality they were only puppets, people who seem stand-offish are in reality often simply nervous |