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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 parallelogram is a polygon with four sides (a quadrilateral). It has two pairs of parallel sides (sides which never meet) and four edges. The opposite sides of a parallelogram have the same length (they are equally long). The word parallelogram comes from the Greek word parallelogrammon (bounded by parallel lines).