parallelism
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English
Etymology
From parallel + -ism and from Late Latin parallelismus.
Pronunciation
Noun
parallelism (countable and uncountable, plural parallelisms)
- 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.
- 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.
- (law) 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.
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Translations
state or condition of being parallel
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agreement, similarity, resemblance
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parallel position
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grammar
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philosophy
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the use of parallel methods in computing
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References
- “parallelism”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “parallelism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Dictionary of Philosophy, Dagobert D. Runes (ed.), Philosophical Library, 1962. See: "Parallelism" by J. J. Rolbiecki, p. 225.