Parallelism

Definition

parallel /'pærǝlel/ adj ၁။ (က) (မ်ဥ္း) ၿပိဳင္။ parallel lines. ❍ converge (ခ) ~ to/ with sth ၿပိဳင္တန္းလ်က္ရိွ [ေသာ]။ The road runs parallel with the canal ❍ The road and the canal are parallel to each other. ၂။ ၿပိဳင္တူျဖစ္ေသာ။ တူညီေသာ။ a parallel case/ career/ development. n ၁။ [U, C] ၿပိဳင္ဘက္။ တူညီမႈ။ an achievement without parallel in modern times ❍ There are interesting parallels (ie similar features) in the two situations. ၂။ [C] ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္ခ်က္။ အႏႈန္း။ It is possible to draw a parallel between their experience and ours. ၃။ (also parallel of latitude ) [C] လတၱီတြဒ္မ်ဥ္း။ မ်ဥ္းၿပိဳင္။ the 49th parallel. ၄။ အဖိုငုတ္စြန္းခ်င္း၊ အမငုတ္စြန္းခ်င္းဆက္ ထားေသာ လွ်ပ္စီးပတ္လမ္း။ Compare SERIES n v ( -l- ) ၁။ တုႏိႈင္းႏိုင္သည္။ တူညီသည္။ His performance has never been paralleled. ❍ Her experiences parallel mine in many ways. ၂။ ၿပိဳင္တူ ျဖစ္ေပၚသည္။ The rise in interest rates was paralleled by a fall in house prices. ❏ in parallel ( with/ to sth/ sb ) [ IDM ] ႏွင့္ၿပိဳင္တူ။ စင္ၿပိဳင္။ အၿပိဳင္။ The two projects will move forward in parallel (with each other). ❏ parallel bars n ႏွစ္တန္းဘား။ ❏ parallelism /-Çzǝm/ n [U] အလားတူမႈ။ Don't exaggerate the parallelism between the two cases.

Examples

1. I drew two parallel lines around the border of the drawing.
2. [parallel to] : He leaned forward so that his body was almost parallel to the ground.
3. [parallel with] : The river enters the town from the east and flows parallel with the main street.
4. There will be parallel announcements from both governments.
5. Parallel efforts by many groups aim to research how to use the Internet more successfully.