parallelism
nounEtymology
From parallel + -ism and from Late Latin parallelismus.
- borrowed from parallēlus,parallēlos
- borrowed from parallèle
Definitions
The state or condition of being parallel
The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
The state of being in agreement or similarity
The state of being in agreement or similarity; resemblance, correspondence, analogy.
- 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
A parallel position; the relation of parallels.
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The juxtaposition of two or more identical or equivalent syntactic constructions,…
The juxtaposition of two or more identical or equivalent syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, introduced for rhetorical effect.
The doctrine that matter and mind do not causally interact but that physiological events…
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.
In antitrust law, the practice of competitors of raising prices by roughly the same…
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.
Similarity of features between two species resulting from their having taken similar…
Similarity of features between two species resulting from their having taken similar evolutionary paths following their initial divergence from a common ancestor.
The use of parallel methods in hardware or software, so that several tasks can be…
The use of parallel methods in hardware or software, so that several tasks can be performed at the same time.
The neighborhood
- neighborparallelist
- neighborparallelistic
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at parallelism. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at parallelism. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at parallelism
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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