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Parallelism
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character. countable, uncountable
- 2 similarity by virtue of corresponding wordnet
- 3 The state of being in agreement or similarity; resemblance, correspondence, analogy. countable, uncountable
"Plutarch (c. AD 46-120), in his Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, traced a parallelism between the most eminent men of the two countries."
- 4 A parallel position; the relation of parallels. countable, uncountable
- 5 The juxtaposition of two or more identical or equivalent syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, introduced for rhetorical effect. countable, rhetoric, uncountable
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- 6 The doctrine that matter and mind do not causally interact but that physiological events in the brain or body nonetheless occur simultaneously with matching events in the mind. countable, uncountable
- 7 In antitrust law, the practice of competitors of raising prices by roughly the same amount at roughly the same time, without engaging in a formal agreement to do so. countable, uncountable
- 8 Similarity of features between two species resulting from their having taken similar evolutionary paths following their initial divergence from a common ancestor. countable, uncountable
- 9 The use of parallel methods in hardware or software, so that several tasks can be performed at the same time. countable, uncountable
Etymology
From parallel + -ism and from Late Latin parallelismus.
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