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Mathematics and science

• Parallel (geometry)
  Parallel (geometry)
  
  Parallelism is a term in geometry and in everyday life that refers to a property in Euclidean space of two or more line s or plane , or a combination of these....
  
• Parallel (latitude), an imaginary east-west line circling a globe

Proper name

• Parallel (manga)
  Parallel (manga)
  
  is a Japanese shonen manga by Toshihiko Kobayashi. It tells the story of two high school students, Shinnosuke Nekota and Sakura Hoshino, who are forced to live together in the same house when their parents become unofficially engaged and leave the country for their work....
  , a shonen manga by Toshihiko Kobayashi
• Parallel (video)
  Parallel (video)
  
  Parallel is a video feature compiling all of R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People and Monster -era promotional videos, as well as several recorded for this release alone....
  , a video album by R.E.M.
  R.E.M.
  
  R.E.M. is an American Rock music band formed in Athens, Georgia, Georgia , in 1980 by Michael Stipe , Peter Buck , Mike Mills , and Bill Berry ....
  
• "The Parallel
  The Parallel
  
  "The Parallel" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone .In 1963 a man filed suit alleging that Serling had stolen the idea for this episode from him....
  ", an episode of The Twilight Zone
• Parallel 9
  Parallel 9
  
  Parallel 9 was a British children's television show that broadcast from 1992 to 1994. It aired on BBC1 on Saturday mornings, thereby occupying the time slot that was at other times held by programmes such as Going Live!....
  , a British children's television show
• Parallel (Music) an alternative hip hop group based out of Southern California
• Avinguda del Paral·lel
  Avinguda del Paral·lel
  
  Avinguda del Paral?lel is one of the main streets of the city of Barcelona. It receives this name because it is parallel to the Equator. It runs from Pla?a d'Espanya, where the city's exhibition halls are located, to Pla?a de la Carbonera and the passenger ship port, dividing the neighbourhood of Poble Sec from the neighbourhoods of Sant An...
  , one of the main streets of Barcelona
  Barcelona
  
  Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....
  
• "Parallel", the fourth track on Bad Religion's 1996 album The Gray Race
  The Gray Race
  
  The Gray Race is the ninth full-length album of the punk rock band Bad Religion, which was released in 1996. It was the follow-up to the band's highly successful 1994 album Stranger Than Fiction ....
  

Music

• Parallel key
  Parallel key
  
  In music, the parallel minor or tonic minor of a particular major key is the minor key with the same Tonic ; similarly the parallel major has the same tonic as the minor key....
  , the minor (or major) key of a major (or minor) key with the same tonic
• Harmonic parallelism
  Harmonic parallelism
  
  In music harmonic parallelism, also known as harmonic planing or parallel voice leading, is the parallel movement of two or more lines or chord ....
  , also known as "harmonic planing" or "parallel voice leading"
• Parallel fifths, the concurrence of successive intervals of a perfect fifth between two voices

Other uses

• Parallelism (grammar)
  Parallelism (grammar)
  
  In grammar, parallelism is a balance of two or more similar words, phrases, or clauses. The application of parallelism in sentence construction improves English writing style and readability....
  , a balance of two or more similar words, phrases, or clauses
• Parallel algorithm
  Parallel algorithm
  
  In computer science, a parallel algorithm, as opposed to a traditional sequential algorithm, is one which can be executed a piece at a time on many different processing devices, and then put back together again at the end to get the correct result....
  
• Parallel circuits, as opposed to series
• Parallel computing
  Parallel computing
  
  Parallel computing is a form of computing in which many calculations are carried out simultaneously, operating on the principle that large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which are then solved Concurrency ....
  
• Parallel cousin
  Parallel cousin
  
  Parallel cousin is an anthropology term denoting consanguinity kin who are in the same descent group as the subject and are from the parent's same-sexed sibling....
  
• Parallel evolution
  Parallel evolution
  
  Parallel evolution is the independent evolution of similar traits, starting from a similar ancestral condition due to similar environments or other evolutionary pressures....
  
• Parallel import
  Parallel import
  
  A parallel import is a non-counterfeit good imported from another country without the permission of the intellectual property owner. Parallel imports are often referred to as grey market, and are implicated in issues of international trade, and intellectual property....
  , also known as a "grey market product"
• Parallel universe (disambiguation)
• Parallel port
  Parallel port
  
  A parallel port is a type of interface found on computers for connecting various peripherals. It is also known as a printer port or Centronics#The interface....
  
• Parallel communication
• Parallel parking
  Parallel parking
  
  Parallel parking is a method of parking a vehicle in line with other parked cars. Cars parked in parallel are in one line, parallel to the Curb , with the front Bumper of each car facing the back bumper of the adjacent one....
  
• Parallel study
  Parallel study
  
  A Parallel study is a type of clinical study where two groups of treatments, A and B, are given so that one group receives only A while another group receives only B....
  , a type of clinical study
• Parallel transport
  Parallel transport
  
  In geometry, parallel transport is a way of transporting geometrical data along smooth curves in a manifold. If the manifold is equipped with an affine connection , then this connection allows one to transport vectors of the manifold along curves so that they stay parallel with respect to the connection....
  , in mathematics using vectors and smooth curves
• Parallels Workstation
  Parallels Workstation
  
  Parallels Workstation is the first commercial software product released by Parallels, Inc., a developer of desktop and server virtualization software....
  , virtualization software