par

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.

“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”

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.

An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.

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.

“He needs to make this shot for par.”

A hole in which a player achieves par.

An amount which is taken as an average or mean.

To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes.

“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.