Par
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Par
noun
- A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented.
- A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.
- An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.
adjective
- Equally distant from one another at all points.
"The horizontal lines on my notebook paper are parallel."
- Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
"The two railway lines are parallel."
- (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.
- Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.
"a parallel algorithm"
noun
- A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
- Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
- A digression; the use of such digressions.
- Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common operator, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.
noun
- In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
- The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
- An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
- A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
- An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
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SYNONYMS
parenthesis-pointround bracketparen
ANTONYMS
perpendicularskewserial