The perceived failure of European countries to translate scientific advances into marketable innovations.

(Canada, US) A nickname for the approximately 1200-mile (1900-kilometer) portion of the border between Canada and the USA, extending along the forty-ninth parallel of latitude from Lake of the Woods to the Pacific Ocean.

A style of education in which students are taught simultaneously in two languages: a "primary" language which is dominant in the given country (in which the immersion is taking place), plus a "secondary" language which is the student's native language.

Of or resembling paradise.

plural of paragraph mark

A symbol designating the beginning of a new paragraph; ¶; the pilcrow.

An electrical circuit that has two or more components that are connected in parallel.

(mycology) A gill trama that is not divided and whose cells are parallel in a cross section.

A set of apparatus consisting of two horizontal bars at a small distance apart, upon which acts of swinging and holding and jumping and dips are performed. / A gymnastics event using the parallel bars.

The fact or condition of being paramount; supremacy, precedence.