WARNING: Antidepressant medications are used to treat a variety of conditions, including depression and other mental/mood disorders. These medications can help prevent suicidal thoughts /attempts and provide other important benefits.
Definition of parallel for Students. 1  1 : a line or surface that lies at or moves in the same direction as another but is always the same distance from it. 2  2 : one of the imaginary circles on the earth's surface running in the same direction as the equator and marking latitude.
A parallel circuit. A parallel circuit is a circuit in which there are at least two independent paths in the circuit back to the source. In a parallel circuit, the current will flow through the closed paths and not through the open paths. In a parallel circuit the electricity has several paths that it can travel.