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Geometryparallel is a term used to describe the study of parallelism among geometric objects, including lines, planes, and curves, and the constructions, criteria, and theorems that determine or preserve parallel relations. It covers both theoretical aspects of geometry and practical methods used in design and analysis, and it appears in discussions of Euclidean geometry as well as in applied fields that rely on parallel constructs.

In two-dimensional Euclidean geometry, two lines in a plane are parallel if they do not intersect. They have equal slopes in a Cartesian representation (or are both vertical), and they maintain a constant distance from each other. The parallel postulate underpins many consequences: a transversal crossing two parallel lines creates equal corresponding angles, and equal alternate interior angles imply parallelism.

In three-dimensional space, parallelism extends to lines and planes. Two lines are parallel if their direction vectors are proportional and they lie in a common plane; otherwise they may be skew. Two planes are parallel if their normal vectors are proportional, so the planes do not intersect. The distance between parallel planes is constant.

Construction and verification methods include drawing a line through a given point parallel to a given line, using slope or vector criteria, and applying translation along a direction. In computational geometry, parallelism checks use direction vectors or normals, often via cross products for lines and dot products for planes.

Applications include computer-aided design, architecture, and geographic information systems. The topic connects to related ideas such as perpendicularity, similarity, and geometric transformations that preserve parallelism. See also: parallel postulate, Euclidean geometry, non-Euclidean geometry.