parallelism
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈpaɹəlɛlɪz(ə)m/
parallelism
- The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
- The state of being in agreement or similarity; resemblance, correspondence, analogy.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.29:
- 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.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.29:
- A parallel position; the relation of parallels.
- (rhetoric, grammar) The juxtaposition of two or more identical or equivalent syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, introduced for rhetorical effect.
- (philosophy) 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.
- (legal) 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.
- (biology) Similarity of features between two species resulting from their having taken similar evolutionary paths following their initial divergence from a common ancestor.
- (computing) The use of parallel methods in hardware or software, so that several tasks can be performed at the same time.
- French: parallélisme
- Portuguese: paralelismo
- Spanish: paralelismo
- Portuguese: paralelismo
- Portuguese: paralelismo
- Portuguese: paralelismo
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