Difference between Parallel and Synchronous

What is the difference between Parallel and Synchronous?

Parallel as an adjective is of two or more (straight) lines, (flat) surfaces etc: equally distant from one another at all points. while Synchronous as an adjective is at the same time, at the same frequency.

Parallel

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of two or more (straight) lines, (flat) surfaces etc: Equally distant from one another at all points. parallel to: Of one thing, relative to another: Equally distant from at all points.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: With a parallel relationship

Part of speech: noun

Definition: One of a set of parallel lines. A line of latitude. An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To construct something parallel to something else. Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else. Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else. To compare or liken something to something else.

Example sentence: We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.

Synchronous

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: At the same time, at the same frequency.

We hope you now know whether to use Parallel or Synchronous in your sentence.

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