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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.

Equally distant from one another at all points.

Example: The horizontal lines on my notebook paper are parallel.

Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".

Example: 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.

Example: a parallel algorithm

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.

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.

By; with.

Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.

Equality of condition or circumstances.

(mostly uncountable) The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole.

Example: He needs to make this shot for par.

A hole in which a player achieves par.

To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes.

Example: He will need to par every hole in order to win this game.

Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater.

A young leveret.