EGAVE

parallelism

About 2.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
  2. noun The state of being in agreement or similarity; resemblance, correspondence, analogy.
  3. noun A parallel position; the relation of parallels.
  4. noun The juxtaposition of two or more identical or equivalent syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, introduced for rhetorical effect.
  5. noun 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.
  6. noun 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.
  7. noun Similarity of features between two species resulting from their having taken similar evolutionary paths following their initial divergence from a common ancestor.
  8. noun The use of parallel methods in hardware or software, so that several tasks can be performed at the same time.

Similar words

correspondence parallel comparison concordance similarity equivalence symmetry congruence analogy alignment

Often followed by

of between in is and with to can that

Word family

parallelisms

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